That is explained almost entirely by the fact that part-time work for women tends to be in what are, from the perspective of employers and perhaps the wider world, low-paid and low-status occupations.The full-time pay gap in Scotland has nudged down ever so slightly and now sits at 12 per cent, compared with 20 per cent 11 years ago. However, although that is good news, we have had a slight change in the calculation, so the news is not quite as good as the figures suggest.