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Australia - Women Managers Still Paid Less Than Men

 

Adele Horin

July 13, 2009

Women who work as managers could be $13,500 a year better off on average if they had a sex change.

That is the penalty managers pay simply for being female, research shows. Full-time female managers on average earn 25 per cent, or $22,000, less than their male counterparts.

About 40 per cent of the gap can be explained by factors such as women working shorter hours than men, but most is likely to be due to discrimination, says Dr Ian Watson of Macquarie University in Sydney.

The research reveals that most workplaces today bear little resemblance to the misogynist office of the 1960s depicted in the hit TV series Mad Men.

"The idea that management is a male preserve as depicted in Mad Men is so outdated," Dr Watson said. "Since the 1970s women have been coming through universities and into management."

Despite the progress, men are twice as likely to become managers as women, and if women have young children, their odds shrink further.

Dr Watson, a senior research fellow in politics and international relations, found that female full-time managers are as educated as men, not much younger, and have about the same experience in the workforce and in management roles as their male counterparts.

"What is most striking about the comparison between male and female managers is their similarities," he said.

Yet men and women are rewarded unevenly for the same characteristics. Male managers earn more for every year they age but female managers reach an earning plateau in their 40s. Male managers earn more if they are married but women do not. And young children are an earnings "liability" for female managers but not so for men.

The research is based on a sample of 3850 managers drawn from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, the biggest ongoing longitudinal study of Australian households. It will be presented at the HILDA conference in Melbourne this week.

It shows that a small part of the wage gap may be explained by female managers working shorter hours, and fewer weeks per year. Though female managers work long hours - 45.7 hours on average - men work an even longer 48 hours.

After having taken these differences into account, Dr Watson found at least 60 per cent of the gender gap in managerial pay was due to being a woman.

He said women faced greater hurdles moving into the more senior management ranks.

"When it comes to promoting managers many bosses favour candidates who appear to be like themselves, and that means male managers recruiting male managers."





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