Women at the top of business outearn men

Submitted by dungone on Sat, 2008-12-13 13:15

Article here, study here (.pdf file). Excerpts:

'The largest empirical analysis of the top echelons of publicly traded companies determined that women earned about $100,000 more per year than men of the same age, educational background and experience.'

'Female executives on the whole still earn less than male executives, but that's because more women quit before they reach the top, the study says.'

I'm sure this study will help dispel many of the typical feminist myths about income inequality. However, I still can't help but point out the irony in this:

'"That common perception is not borne out by this study," said Robert A. Miller, professor of economics and strategy and one of the authors. "If you're looking for evidence of gender discrimination in executive promotion and compensation, it's not happening there."'

It's such a pervasive view in our society that glass ceilings are for women, patriarchy is for men, and that so long as the discrimination favors women then it's not even worth mentioning as a possibility. They just showed that there is a gender wage gap, but already there are signs of relief that it is good news for women and that's all that matters. You can be sure that if it was the other way around, feminists would immediately seize the income difference as proof of male privilege and sexism.

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...should be addressing mens pay disparity; factor into that the amount of taxes men pay to subsidize the gynocentric nanny state-

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Submitted by wanderer on Sun, 2008-12-14 02:25

I'm not too surprised that these women make more money for the same job... their employers are probably trying to retain them as long as possible, since high turnover of leadership tends to hurt companies. They're also bound to be afraid of any sort of sexual discrimination suite. It's probably easier just to pad their incomes to be higher than the average than to deal with potential legal costs later. But if I could design a follow-up study, I'd try to make one that studied how the trend among older women to retire early affects the opportunities given to younger women. I can imagine that just knowing that an executive is more likely to go into early retirement would make upper management less inclined to groom him or her for higher level posts.

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Submitted by dungone on Mon, 2008-12-15 05:29