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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStudy: Men working more overtime is keeping gender wage gap alive
According to a study published in the American Sociological Review, men are more likely than women to work 50 or more hours per week, which the researchers call overworking. They looked at pay data from 1979 to 2009 and found that overwork slowed the closing of the gender gap. While the gap narrowed rapidly in the 1970s and 80s, it slowed down in the 90s and virtually stopped moving after that.
These changes raised mens wages relative to womens and exacerbated the gender wage gap by an estimated 10 percent of the total wage gap, the study says. This overwork effect was also sufficiently large to offset the wage-equalizing effects of the narrowing gender gap in educational attainment and other forms of human capital.
Overwork is particularly common in professional and managerial roles, where its expected in order to gain promotions and better pay, the study says. Women are less likely to take a job that requires overwork, and less likely to stay in one possibly because theyre expected to do other things, too.
Despite moves toward equality, women still tend to be more responsible than men for housework and child care hours that hardly count on the job but make them plenty overworked, too, Quartz says.
These changes raised mens wages relative to womens and exacerbated the gender wage gap by an estimated 10 percent of the total wage gap, the study says. This overwork effect was also sufficiently large to offset the wage-equalizing effects of the narrowing gender gap in educational attainment and other forms of human capital.
Overwork is particularly common in professional and managerial roles, where its expected in order to gain promotions and better pay, the study says. Women are less likely to take a job that requires overwork, and less likely to stay in one possibly because theyre expected to do other things, too.
Despite moves toward equality, women still tend to be more responsible than men for housework and child care hours that hardly count on the job but make them plenty overworked, too, Quartz says.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-reason-men-more-women-021009997.html;_ylt=A2KJ2UiD55pS6CUAiyjQtDMD
Closing this gap is going to be more complicated than perhaps originally thought.
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Study: Men working more overtime is keeping gender wage gap alive (Original Post)
davidn3600
Dec 2013
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Skittles
(153,174 posts)1. (women)...."possibly because they’re expected to do other things, too"
gee, ya THINK?
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)2. I'm pretty sure of it
If you look at the time use survey data on the BLS web site it shows that women spend more time with domestic activities and men spend more time with income generating activities. The two balance out almost exactly.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)3. problem is
it's not just the amount of hours on the job
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)4. That's true for both genders
Neither should be devalued.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)5. what 'other things' are they talking about