More attention on lower-paid roles:

As women make-up the largest number of employees in lower-income sectors such as social care and retail - holding 59% of minimum wage jobs - Miller has called upon the Conservatives to turn the focus of the gender pay gap towards these “highly feminised” roles, as opposed to the higher-income roles on which the discussion usually focusses.

The report calls for the government to introduce an industrial strategy to encourage better wages in these sectors.

The government has two months to respond to the committee's recommendations.

The news comes soon after researchers at Cornell University revealed that, as women began to dominate historically male-dominated industries, the overall pay drops – suggesting that work done by women simply isn’t valued as highly as the same conducted by men.

On Wednesday, a report to be published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, will reveal that campaigns to get more women onto FTSE 100 boards, have been unsuccessful.

The gender pay gap has barely improved over the last four years