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In 2002, women in full-time employment earned a third less than men, though this represented a 3 per cent rise from 1999 figures.

Councillor Irene Graham, the equalities spokeswoman for Glasgow City Council, noted this.

She said: "The report shows clearly that there are still barriers to employment for many women. Female earnings are still lower in comparison with men, despite evidence of higher educational attainment among women."

Why women are better astronauts than men

JAMES REYNOLDS

SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT

If Space scientists had known better at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969, the mission’s defining legacy might have read "one small step for a woman, one giant leap for womankind".

New medical research has revealed that the mental and physical characteristics of women mean they are far better suited to long-term space travel than men. As a result, one medical expert has now claimed there is a very strong case for an all-female cosmonaut crew on the first mission to put humans on Mars.

William Rowe, a professor of medicine at the Medical College of Ohio in Toledo, in the United States, said: "A manned trip to the Red Planet should, in fact, be womanned."

Prof Rowe has published new research in the journal Mens Health and Gender, which focused on the hormonal and physical make-up of women under 30 years of age, and concludes that they are far better suited to long-term, long-distance travel than men.