{"id":4841,"date":"2008-09-25T04:16:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/25\/gender-attitudes-and-the-wage-gap\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T04:16:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T11:36:39","slug":"gender-attitudes-and-the-wage-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4841","title":{"rendered":"Gender Attitudes And The Wage Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results need to be replicated. Still, this is really interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Men with egalitarian attitudes about the role of women in society earn significantly less on average than men who hold more traditional views about women’s place in the world, according to a study being reported today.<\/p>\n

It is the first time social scientists have produced evidence that large numbers of men might be victims of gender-related income disparities. The study raises the provocative possibility that a substantial part of the widely discussed gap in income between men and women who do the same work is really a gap between men with a traditional outlook and everyone else.<\/p>\n

The differences found in the study were substantial. Men with traditional attitudes about gender roles earned $11,930 more a year than men with egalitarian views and $14,404 more than women with traditional attitudes. The comparisons were based on men and women working in the same kinds of jobs with the same levels of education and putting in the same number of hours per week.<\/p>\n

Although men with a traditional outlook earned the most, women with a traditional outlook earned the least. The wage gap between working men and women with a traditional attitude was more than 10 times as large as the gap between men and women with egalitarian views.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The study writers discussed two possible causes of the disparity: Either traditional men are better negotiators than everyone else, or employers discriminate against women, and against nontraditional men. The way the article wrote about it made it sound as if these are mutually exclusive possibilities, but I don’t think that’s true; if anything, they could be mutually reinforcing possibilities. ((For instance, if class A learns that harder negotiation tactics don’t bring results (discrimination<\/em>), that would lead class A to negotiate less hard than class B does. Class B’s greater pay would then be partly due to “better negotiation.”))<\/p>\n

The study writers also speculated that since there’s very little disparity between the wages of men with egalitarian attitudes and women, the more men have egalitarian attitudes, the smaller the wage gap will become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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