Around 6,000 organisations — including many law firms — will be required to report their gender pay data to the new portal when it launches in the autumn.

The legal obligation to report on the gender pay gap will be extended later this year to every organisation in Ireland with over 50 employees.

Children, disability and equality minister Norma Foley said: “The gender pay gap in Ireland in 2022 was 9.6 per cent, meaning that the average man earned 9.6 per cent more than the average woman.

“The new gender pay gap portal will help to raise awareness of the gender pay gap among employers and the public.”

The most recent data from Growing Up in Ireland, which follows the progress of children born from 1998 onwards, found that women earn less than men with comparable education levels.

Women with a degree or higher earned €28 less per week than men, and women with a higher cert or less earned €103 less than the men with an equivalent level of education.

Amongst the group of women in the study who were born in 1998 and are now 25 years old, 88 per cent of them were concerned about gender inequality compared to 66 per cent of men.

Ms Foley said: “A powerful society is a fair and equal society. There has been progress made since 2007 when the gender pay gap in Ireland was 17.3 per cent but much more remains to be done.

“Women are capable, committed and talented contributors to the workforce. Their levels of pay should reflect this.”

Updated regulations will be put in place to require organisations to report their data via the new gender pay gap portal in time for this year’s deadline of the end of November. They can also upload their gender pay gap reports with more information on their own websites if they wish.