When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears

Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by DanBC on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:12PM (#14915167)

> Consider nursing

But even in nursing we see men being promoted faster than women.

When we ask why there are so few women tech leaders, or women in tech, we're told it's a pipeline problem: not enough women in STEM education.

But that's not the case for nursing. So why do men get promoted over women?

Here are some numbers from England. I've picked midwifery and ambulance staff, because there's some contrast there.

  	Midwives
  	Payband	 Men	Women	Total	Ratio men:women
  	Band 5	 11	2301	2312	0.00:1.00
  	Band 6	 57	18294	18351	0.00:1.00
  	Band 7	 36	4663	4699	0.01:0.99
  	Band 8a	 2	183	185	0.01:0.99
  	Band 8b	 1	31	32	0.03:0.97
  	Band 8c	 2	15	17	0.12:0.88


        Ambulance staff						
  	Payband	 men	women	total	ratio men:women	
  	Band 4	 2222	1479	3701	0.60:0.40
  	Band 5	 5986	4072	10058	0.60:0.40
  	Band 6	 3553	1889	5442	0.65:0.35
  	Band 7	 610	202	812	0.75:0.25
  	Band 8a	 85	25	110	0.77:0.23
  	Band 8b	 49	10	59	0.83:0.17
  	Band 8c	 14	1	15	0.93:0.07
  	Band 8d	 14	1	15	0.93:0.07

http://content.digital.nhs.uk/article/2021/Website-Search?pr...

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Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by hackinthebochs on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @07:45PM (#14915717)

>But that's not the case for nursing. So why do men get promoted over women?

Hard to say as I know very little about these fields. Presumably people in these fields are promoted because they show leadership or managerial qualities of some sort. Is there a reason to expect leadership or managerial qualities, or the interest in positions with those responsibilities to be unequally distributed among the sexes? Maybe. The differences in assertiveness is one potential explanation. Also the differences in status-seeking behavior. I'm not saying these differences explain it, but they're potential causes that can't be ruled out from the data alone.

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