Bryson, Alexander;
Theodoropoulos, Nikos;
Forth, John;
(2022)
Are Women Doing It for Themselves? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap.
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
, 84
(6)
pp. 1329-1355.
10.1111/obes.12509.
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Abstract
Using linked employer-employee data for Britain, we find a robust association between the share of female managers in the workplace and the size of the gender wage gap. In workplace fixed-effects estimates, the gap is eradicated when more than 60% of workplace managers are women, a scenario that obtains in around one fifth of all workplaces. The association between the share of female managers and the gender wage gap is more pronounced when workplace managers set pay at the workplace, and where employees are paid for performance. These findings are consistent with the proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they set pay or reward performance and those managers are women. They suggest that a stronger presence of women in managerial positions can help tackle the gender wage gap.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Are Women Doing It for Themselves? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1111/obes.12509 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12509 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics published by Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | gender wage gap, female managers, performance pay |
UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149092 |
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