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Research: Progress on the Gender Pay Gap – 2019

Glassdoor – the platform which allows workers to share a variety of different job information voluntarily or anonymously – has compiled data given on pay to understand whether any significant progress is being made to reduce gender pay gaps.

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Its just-published research examines how gender pay gaps have changed in countries including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Australia since 2016 (the last time this was looked at).

Amongst the research are findings including:

  • Men earn more than women in all eight countries studied: This was even after it applied statistical controls for worker and job characteristics to ensure an apples-to-apples comparison
  • The pay gap has narrowed since its last study in 2016: But even at current rates, it will take till 2070 for the pay gap to be eliminated altogether
  • Occupational and industry sorting exists: This explains about 56.5% of the overall pay gap — by far the largest factor
  • Salary confidence is a leading contributor to pay gaps: Men apply for roles with base salaries that are $13,635 higher, or a gap of 18.3 percent

 

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