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> Although the average woman’s salary in Britain is 29% lower than the average man’s, the bulk of that gap results from differences in rank within companies, fi
by danharaj 9y ago
> Although the average woman’s salary in Britain is 29% lower than the average man’s, the bulk of that gap results from differences in rank within companies, firms’ overall compensation rates and the nature of the tasks a job requires.
If Software Engineer II makes less than Software Engineer III, and women of equivalent skill and experience to men have a significantly higher chance of being Software Engineer II than III, then the wage gap exists for "the same work".
This is particularly difficult to measure, but still possible with proper diligence, because rank throughout a career is a compounding advantage.
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- grillvogel 9y agoyeah this pretty much invalidates any conclusions they are trying to reach. i've noticed at my company that competent women seem to be stuck at the same title for a pretty long time.
- micahbright 9y agoI haven't. Just wanted to add my anecdote, so that it gets counted when they do a meta-study of hacker news comments.
- monochromatic 9y ago> women of equivalent skill and experience to men have a significantly higher chance of being Software Engineer II than III Unfortunately, there's no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
- ebola1717 9y agoDid you even google it http://www.nber.org/digest/feb07/w12321.html http://www.nber.org/digest/feb07/w12321.html http://www.nber.org/papers/w20761 http://www.nber.org/papers/w20761 http://www.wsj.com/specialcoverage/women-in-the-workplace http://www.wsj.com/specialcoverage/women-in-the-workplace
- monochromatic 9y ago>equivalent skill At a quick glance, your links don't speak to that aspect at all. And that's sort of the most important thing.
- ebola1717 9y ago> controlling for all variables, including worker performance ratings, men's promotion rates were still 2.2 percentage points higher than women's.