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The government is to press ahead with plans to force large firms to disclose data on the gender pay gap among staff.

David Cameron says the move will "pressure" firms into boosting women's wages, as he vows to eliminate the gender pay gap "within a generation".

Speaking on the Daily Politics, Belinda Phipps from the Fawcett Society, who campaigns for women's equality and rights, said publishing the pay gap was a step in the right direction, but the fact that there was a gap at all was "disgraceful".

But Kate Andrews from the Adam Smith Institute, a free market think tank, said employers "had nothing to do with" gender discrimination, and that younger women were actually earning more than their male counterparts.

She said the "choices women were making" might explain a gender pay gap among older age groups.