The Bar Council has launched new data analysis and resources to encourage chambers to identify any earnings disparities within their own sets and understand what is causing the differences.
The Bar Council data analysis at a whole Bar level is based on earnings declared during the authorisation to practise (AtP) process and reveals concerning patterns in relation to disparities between men and women at the self-employed Bar. The new analysis for 2022 shows:

In every Call band and every area of self-employed practice, men’s median gross earnings are higher than women’s.
The disparity in earnings between men and women is present in the early years of practice with an overall difference of 17% in Call band 0-3 years. The gap is greatest at the 11-15 years Call band, at 30%.
Women silks earn ...