Gender gaps across the earnings distribution for full-time employees in Britain: Allowing for sample selection

► Explore gender gaps across the log wage distributions of British full-time employees in 2005. ► Raw gender wage gap tends to increase across the distribution (some glass ceiling effect). ► Relationship between white-collar occupations, managerial duties and glass ceiling in data. ► Find strong positive selection into full-time employment by British women. ► Selection corrected gap (twice raw gap) related to lower rewards to women for their characteristics.