Gender pay gap driven by male lawyers having no interest in work-life balance. New mothers bill 200 hours less; new fathers keep working nights and weekends as before in a rat race job
21 Feb 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender pay gap
The gender pay gap and motherhood
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender pay gap, motherhood penalty
Was Aaron Sorkin right? Hollywood discriminates? Sacrifices profit to indulge sexism?
17 Dec 2014 1 Comment
The link between paid parental leave generosity and a larger gender pay gap-updated
09 Nov 2014 4 Comments
in discrimination, economics, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender pay gap, labour economics, occupation choice, sex discrimination
But it also turns out that some countries that offer more liberal parental leave policies have higher pay gaps among men and women ages 30 to 34, according to analyses of 16 countries conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
OECD theorizes that this link may be driven by the fact that women are more likely than men to actually use their parental leave, and that time out of the workforce is associated with lower wages.
It is rather obvious if you pay women not to work, they will accumulate less job experience and miss out on promotional and other career advancement opportunities in their prime of their career.
As this OECD paper in 2012 found with regard to paid parental leave and gender gaps in employment and earnings:
…the provision and gradual lengthening of paid leave have contributed to a widening in the gender pay gap of full-time employees.
This may reflect the fact that women experience slower career and earnings progression on returning from leave to full-time employment than men, much fewer of whom take leave.
In sum, the development of parental leave policies in most countries appears to have had a positive, albeit marginal, role in the rise of female employment, although women pay a price in the form of reduced earnings progression.
Claudia Golden found that in some high-powered professions, any career interruption at all, can greatly reduce lifetime earnings.
via The link between parental leave and the gender pay gap | Pew Research Center.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments