The gender wage gap in the labour market is a widely discussed issue in relevant discourses and literature. Societal attitude, occupational segregation, vertical segregation, barriers to entry and retention, and discriminatory practices at workplace are often cited as factors contributing to women getting lower wages compared to men. However, the ILO's recent publication titled "Global Wage Report 2018/19: What lies behind gender pay gaps" singles out Bangladesh as an outlier where women's average wages, both raw and factor-adjusted, were higher than those of men. These counter-intuitive findings have raised a lot of interest and queries regarding the underlying causes leading to these results. Centre for Policy dialogue (CPD) in association with FES Bangladesh conducted this research which undertakes a thorough investigation of the methodology deployed by the ILO study and critically examines the factors contributing to the reverse gender gap as found in the case of Bangladesh.