Female graduates request lower starting salaries than male graduates when looking for their first job, a vacancy website has found.

Analysis of salary requests made by almost 500,000 graduate job seekers between 2003
and 2013 on Graduate-jobs.com revealed the
trend has remained the same for the past ten years.

The difference between the wage expectations of males and females in 2013 was £1,438. On average, men requested £20,219 a year while women asked for £18,781.

This gap has risen since 2003, when the gap was £999 – £18,506 for men and £17,507 for women.
Female graduates demand smaller salaries than men