Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women
Occupational segregation is widely considered as one major reason leading to the gender discrimination in labor market. Using large-scale Chinese re-sume data of online job seekers, we uncover an interesting phenomenon that occupations with higher proportion of men have smaller gender wage gap measu...
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| author | Wei Bai Zhongtao Yue Tao Zhou |
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| description | Occupational segregation is widely considered as one major reason leading to the gender discrimination in labor market. Using large-scale Chinese re-sume data of online job seekers, we uncover an interesting phenomenon that occupations with higher proportion of men have smaller gender wage gap measured by the female-male ratio on wage. We further show that the sever-ity of occupational segregation in China is low both overall and regionally, and the inter-occupational discrimination is much smaller than the intra-occupational discrimination. That is to say, Chinese women do not face large barriers when changing their occupations. Accordingly, we suggest Chinese women a new way to narrow the gender wage gap: to join male-dominated occupations. Meanwhile, it is worth noticing that although the gender wage gap is smaller in male-dominated occupations, it does not mean that the gender discrimination is smaller there. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a34328c21607454cbdca9fdda98e48552023-04-05T08:21:15ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402023-03-0193e14198Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese womenWei Bai0Zhongtao Yue1Tao Zhou2CompleX Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, ChinaCompleX Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, ChinaCorresponding author.; CompleX Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, ChinaOccupational segregation is widely considered as one major reason leading to the gender discrimination in labor market. Using large-scale Chinese re-sume data of online job seekers, we uncover an interesting phenomenon that occupations with higher proportion of men have smaller gender wage gap measured by the female-male ratio on wage. We further show that the sever-ity of occupational segregation in China is low both overall and regionally, and the inter-occupational discrimination is much smaller than the intra-occupational discrimination. That is to say, Chinese women do not face large barriers when changing their occupations. Accordingly, we suggest Chinese women a new way to narrow the gender wage gap: to join male-dominated occupations. Meanwhile, it is worth noticing that although the gender wage gap is smaller in male-dominated occupations, it does not mean that the gender discrimination is smaller there.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023014056Gender wage gapOccupational segregationGender inequality |
| spellingShingle | Wei Bai Zhongtao Yue Tao Zhou Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women Heliyon Gender wage gap Occupational segregation Gender inequality |
| title | Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women |
| title_full | Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women |
| title_fullStr | Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women |
| title_full_unstemmed | Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women |
| title_short | Jumping to male-dominated occupations: A novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for Chinese women |
| title_sort | jumping to male dominated occupations a novel way to reduce the gender wage gap for chinese women |
| topic | Gender wage gap Occupational segregation Gender inequality |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023014056 |
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