But there's a downside: those female managers are concentrated in industries with
the largest gender wage gap.
In the late 1980s, although women lawyers had made great strides in the legal profession, there was still
a large gender wage gap due to women lawyers being forced onto the mommy track.
Not exact matches
In 1980 the
gender wage gap was lower in occupations where women were highly represented, but by 2010 the effect was in the opposite direction — the
gender wage gap is
larger in positions with a higher proportion of women.
Employers complain about the new higher minimum
wage (the so - called «living
wage»); the «apprenticeship levy» (a payroll tax for
large companies); restrictions on skilled migrant workers; and the requirement for
large companies to publish their
gender pay
gaps.
The Hesa survey did not break down its results by
gender and industry destination to explain the
wage gap, but one factor may be the
larger number of women earning degrees: 172,000 female first - degree earners were recorded, or 57 % of the total, compared with 129,000 males.
Looking at software engineer salary offers at companies of different sizes, Hired found that smaller bootstrapped and seed stage companies have a
gender wage gap half that of
larger corporations.