Young women are not benefiting from apprenticeships in the same way as their male peers.

Equal Pay Day, the day where women effectively work for free for the rest of the year because of the gender pay gap, occurred this year on 9 November.

But, almost two weeks before, another ‘equal pay day’ passed largely unnoticed.

Female apprentices started working for free on 28 October, because, as the BBC reported, the pay discrepancy between men and women in vocational training is even bigger.