To continue this investigation, my next steps would be to collate bespoke data from a range of businesses. This would allow me to analyse the specifics of each organisation, including efforts over time to reduce the gender pay gap and resulting trends from this. I would also explore the pay quartiles and provide an in-depth breakdown of the roles within organisations with the highest and lowest pay disparity. I would also compare the hourly rate. This would be benchmarked against the average UK and average Scottish pay gap data.

From a sector perspective, I would explore the hourly pay gap data and plot the trends over time for various sectors to observe if any reduction in the pay gap has been made.

Using bespoke data from companies would also give an indication of the workforce balance of male and female employees.