Do women call in sick more often than men? This MSNBC article says they do.
The inference for women's wages is that their skills depreciate or they cost the company money either by hiring a temp or having to pay other workers overtime.
This link writes that women are less productive than men. This link is a learned 69-page paper that explores productivity in the US and around the world. I don't know what to think.
Finally, from Superfreakonomics, "Though the sample size is small, women who underwent surgery to change into men earn more after the gender transition while men who became women earned on an average 1/3 less than their previous wage." (pages 47-48. I love how statistics are shown to the readers.)
What!! I m going to check out that paper in a minute--I have a hard time believing women are less productive than men, though I do believe they call in sick more often, especially if they have small children who are home sick.
ReplyDeleteOk--just read, skimmed the article on women and job productivity--the last paragraph sums it up--no finding that women are less productive in the job areas studied--the point of the study really focused on explaining wage gaps between genders and shows a historic link to "sorting", referring the fact that some jobs in industry were deemed more effectively done by women with small hands (in textile piece-work jobs studied here) and men were more productive in heavier manual labor jobs in the same industry--this sorting led to wage gaps based upon the worth of the labor not the productivity of the worker. that's it in a nut shell after a five minute review! andrea w
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