Other popular brands highlighted for large pay gaps are budget airline Easyjet and Virgin Money.

Female employees at Easyjet receive, on average, 51.7% lower pay and make up only 10% of senior roles. The airline says that women and men doing the same role do receive equal pay, and the reason for this disparity is because only 6% of women are pilots, a role which the BBC reports pays around £92,400 a year. Whereas, the majority of cabin crew are women, a role with an average annual salary of £24,800.

Easyjet claims that they will set a target that by 2020 one in five of new pilots should be female. This still feels hugely disproportionate and makes even more of a case for campaigns like Stylist’s Visible Women, which sets out to educate younger generations on inspiring women throughout history, and encourage them into male-dominated industries.

Virgin Money, which pays female employees, on average, 32.5% less than men, has been unable to guarantee that men and women doing the same role are paid equally. The company said it was “confident” that they were, but only have 35% of senior roles currently being filled by women.

So far only 534 employers out of the 9,000 expected to take part have published their figures (the extent of which can be seen on gov.uk).

The initiative was introduced in the Equality Act 2010, which asked UK companies to provide information on the average hourly pay difference between male and female staff by 6 April 2018.

The percentages reported are a reflection of the overall pay discrepancy between men and women, irrespective of their job or position. Companies are already supposed to pay men and women the same amount for the same job but these figures highlight how many more men occupy senior roles compared to women.

Twitter users have been sharing their opinions on the topic, with some seeming to miss the point of the initiative, confusing the difference between the gender pay gap and equal pay.

One social media user tweeted a mock conversation which alluded that she had confused the two terms.

These well-known brands have revealed their gender pay gap – and it's bad