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Historical_Window440 t1_iz56e85 wrote

Abstract
"Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast majority of the pay gap. Data that can identify women and men who do the same work for the same employer are rare, and research informing this crucial aspect of gender differences in pay is several decades old and from a limited number of countries. Here, using recent linked employer–employee data from 15 countries, we show that the processes sorting people into different jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay differences than was previously believed and that within-job pay differences remain consequential."

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Im_Talking t1_iz6lco3 wrote

>The processes involved in sorting women and men into different jobs, and particularly into differentially remunerated male- and female-dominated occupations

I don't get it. Who is doing this 'sorting'?

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Livresq t1_iz77rra wrote

>Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay.

Say that again, slowly and out loud.

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oldgrimalkin t1_iz7ecqw wrote

The study finds that this statement is not true. They find that women are paid less then men for the same job. (As opposed to the supposition (aka “extant knowledge“) that the wage gap exists because women end up in (“are sorted into”) traditionally female jobs which pay less than traditionally male jobs.)

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