In the year 2000 the average woman barrister earned 61% of the earnings of the average male barrister. In the year 2020 the equivalent figure was still 61% (barcouncil.org.uk/uploads/assets…). 
The reasons for this include: women being pushed into lower earning areas of practice, the average women barrister being more junior than the average man (because the Bar is poor at retaining women after they have children)...
(theoretically) more women working part time (although I can't imagine the effects are significant), a client led preference for men, and a failure on the part of some Chambers to take a sufficient interest in what their clerking produces.
When I sat on the Retention (of Women) Sub-Committee of the Equality and Diversity Committee of the Bar Council back in the day there was a real reluctance to publish these figures. So there has been progress on that at least - but there is so much more to do.
(For the avoidance of doubt, the reluctance, as I recall, was an institutional reluctance not one of the Committee or Sub-Committee.)
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