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Largest gender pay gap exists in computer programming
Computer programmers, some of the oldest workers in the tech industry, have the largest gender pay gap compared to all other professions across all industries, according to a new study.
Computer programmers, some of the oldest workers in the tech industry, have the largest gender pay gap compared to all other professions across all industries, according to a new study.
Women who write the software that runs on mainframe computers earn on average 72 cents per dollar earned by their male counterparts, according to research conducted by Glassdoor Inc., the online job information firm. That pay gap exists even after controlling for age, education, experience, job title, employer and location.
Glassdoor compared salary information for more than 500,000 full-time workers in the U.S. in an effort to identify pay gaps across industries. The tech industry falls near the middle of the pack, with the 10th largest gender pay gap out of the 24 industries studied, according to the survey.
“Computer programming is one of the more traditional professions within the tech industry,” says Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor and the author of the study. “It tends to be heavily male dominated and an older crowd.”
However, not all tech jobs pay men and women so differently. Among mobile developers, there is just a 2.9% gap between the average salaries for men and women after adjusting for age, experience and other factors. For software engineers, men on average make 6% more than their female colleagues.
Tech companies are just starting to release data about how much they pay their workers. Amazon.com, under pressure from a shareholder, said on Tuesday it found women and men earn essentially the same in its U.S. workforce. Apple and Intel have said they found little-to-no compensation discrepancies among their U.S. workers.
Part of these narrower pay gaps can be explained by age. Jobs that employ younger workers have smaller gender pay gaps, which increase the longer people are in the workforce. Software engineers and mobile developers, meanwhile, are more likely to be younger workers, Mr. Chamberlain said.
Mr. Chamberlain declined to discuss pay gaps of particular companies. “But for every company where there is zero pay gap, there are certainly companies where gaps exist,” he said.
Source: techgig.com
