B
Evidence Grade B
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17.5%
17.5% -- gender pay gap for Tech roles (UK) (2026)
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Value
17.5%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Geography
UK
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
wacl.info
Primary
Tier B
https://wacl.info/why-is-marketing-and-medias-talent-problem-following-us-into-the-ai-era/ ↗
Source Article
Why is marketing and media’s talent problem following us into the AI era?
Why is a technology that, in so many ways, is moving us forward exacerbating the same old talent problems? And importantly, what can we do about it?
Marketing and media’s continued technical merging is keeping us all on our to…
Original Research
wacl.info
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Methodology
Gender pay gap cited as a factor in women leaving tech; UK context inferred from article (WACL is a UK body, figures in GBP). Original study not named.
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Segmentation
IndustryTech
RegionUK
RoleAll marketers
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Tech roles (UK): 17.5% gender pay gap. Source: wacl.info (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-tech-gender-pay-gap-17-5
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