| Show Study finds pay gap for some men Shankar The Washington Post PostMen PostMen PostMen Men with egalitarian attitudes about the role of women in society earn significantly less on average than men who hold more moreT T i traditional views about t. t women's place in the world according to a study being reported Monday It is the first time social scientists have produced evidence that large numbers of men may be victims of related gender-related income disparities The study raises the provocative possibility that a substantial part of the widely discussed gap in income between men and women who do the same work is really a gap between men with a traditional outlook and everyone else j rather rather than a gap between men and women per se j The differences found in inthe inthe the study were substantial Men with traditional attitudes about gender roles earned SI 1930 more a year IJ than men with egalitarian r I views and more I than women with traditional attitudes The comparisons were based on men and women working in the same kinds of jobs with the same levels of education and putting in the same number of hours per week While men with a traditional outlook earned the most women with a traditional outlook earned the least The wage gap between working men and women with a traditional attitude was more than 10 times larger than the wage gap between men and women with egalitarian views If you divide workers into four groups men with traditional attitudes men with egalitarian attitudes women with traditional attitudes and women with egalitarian attitudes men with traditional attitudes earn far more for the same work than those in any of the other groups There are small disparities among the three disadvantaged groups but the bulk of the income disparity is between the first group and the rest When we think of the gender wage gap most of our focus goes to the women side of things said Beth Livingston a co-author co of the new study This article says a lot of the difference may be in mens men's salaries Livingston said she was taken aback by the result We Ve actually thought maybe men with traditional attitudes work in more complex jobs that pay more or select into higher paying occupations she said Regardless of the jobs people chose or how long they worked at them there was still a significant effect of gender role attitudes on income The study published in the September issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology is based on longitudinal information collected by a federal government survey administered every two years to o more than people over a quarter century The JS US Department of Labors Labor's National Longitudinal Survey of Youth began tracking people in 1979 when they were between 14 and 22 years old The group is now between 43 and 51 years old Since many participants in the survey were children when it started incomes for both men and women changed dramatically over the 25 years that Livingston and co-author co Timothy Judge studied Averaged over the quarter century salaries ranged from 34 for working men with traditional attitudes to for working workingwomen workingwomen workingwomen women with traditional attitudes Working men with egalitarian attitudes made 22 on average while working women with egalitarian attitudes made Livingston and Judge who are both organizational psychologists at the University of Florida at Gainesville compared peoples people's incomes over time timeto to their evolving views on whether a womans woman's place is in the home and whether it itis itis itis is better for men to be the only breadwinners People who endorsed distinct roles in society for men and women were considered to have traditional views while those who advocated equal roles for men and women at home and in the workplace were classified as having egalitarian views The study offers an unusual window into the persistent gender disparities in income that have been observed for decades Critics of the gender-gap gender theory regularly suggest that the gap between men and women is an artifact of the career choices that men and women make or the different hours that men and women work arguing that more men choose higher paying professions such as law and business and more women choose paying lower-paying professions such as education and social work and that men tend to work longer hours than women Researchers said all the conclusions in inthe inthe inthe the new study were based on comparisons between people in similar jobs working similar hours with similar qualifications Some would say Of course traditional men earn more than traditional women they are both fulfilling their desires to play different roles in the home and workplace said Judge emphasizing that the researchers compared working men with working workingwomen workingwomen workingwomen women not working men with women who stay home Our results do not support that view If you were a traditional-minded traditional woman would you say I I am fine working the same hours as asa asa asa a traditional-minded traditional man in inthe inthe inthe the same industry with the same education but earning substantially less I dont don't think traditional-minded traditional women would say that The empirical evidence in the study showed that there is a connection between peoples people's attitudes about gender roles and their salaries It was not designed to explain why those disparities come about or how peoples people's attitudes supposedly a private matter affect how much money they make Livingston and Judge said there are two possible explanations Traditional- Traditional minded men may negotiate much harder for better salaries especially when compared to traditional- traditional minded women Alternatively it could also be that employers discriminate against both women and men who do donot donot donot not subscribe be to traditional gender roles I t could be men are hyper-competitive hyper salary negotiators the Donald Trump prototype perhaps said Judge It could be on the employer side that subconsciously the men who are egalitarian are seen as effete Livingston a PhD candidate in management added People make others uncomfortable when they disconfirm stereotypes we dont don't know how to interpret them Increasing numbers of Americans hold egalitarian views about the role of the workplace and the researchers suggested that if gender role attitudes are indeed at the core of the longstanding wage gap disparities in income may recede as egalitarian views become more prevalent Parents looking at the study might be tempted to inculcate their sons with traditional gender views with an eye to greater but success financial i the researchers warned would come at that this their daughters' daughters cost traditional-minded traditional women suffer the greatest income disadvantage for doing the same work Traditional values Judge concluded do donot donot not have to be traditional role gender-role values |
