塑造大学毕业计算机科学工作者性别工资差距的因素
Sharon Sassler1, Pamela Meyerhofer2
1Department of Sociology, The Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America.
PloS one
|October 30, 2023
概括
缩小计算机科学性别工资差距需要为同等工作提供同等工资. 男人为家庭和STEM学位获得更高的薪酬溢价,大大增加了这种差异.
科学领域:
- 社会经济学 社会经济学
- 劳动经济学 劳动经济学
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 尽管努力鼓励女性从事科学,技术,工程和数学 (STEM) 领域,但性别工资差距仍然存在.
- 计算机科学角色占STEM就业的很大一部分,这使得它们对于了解整体性别工资差距至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查计算机科学中的工人属性是否解释了持续的性别工资差距.
- 量化性别工资差距的比例归因于相似特征的奖励差异.
主要方法:
- 对2009-2019年美国社区调查 (ACS) 数据的分析,针对22-60岁的全职,大学受过教育的工人.
- 在观察到的特征上记录工资的普通最小平方 (OLS) 回归.
- 回归分解以估计平等奖励结构对性别工资差距的影响.
主要成果:
- 在计算机科学中,性别工资差距为每美元13.4美分 (女性的收入为每美元86.6美分).
- 控制组合因素缩小了差距,但女性每美元收入仍低9.1美分.
- 对家庭特征和人力资本的差异性回报解释了近三分之二的性别工资差距.
结论:
- 与女性相比,男性的婚姻和育儿工资溢价要高得多.
- 在计算机科学和工程工作中拥有STEM学位的男性获得了女性无法获得的工资溢价.
- 解决计算机科学性别工资差距需要在同等属性的工资方面平等对待女性,而不仅仅是增加代表性.
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