Abstract
On average, women earn less than men. This is evident in countries with the largest economies of the world. The purpose of this research is to discover whether a woman’s name rather than that of a man contributes to this difference. In an experiment involving 281 employees from several companies, participants were asked to pretend that they were human resource managers. They were required to offer a salary to a female or male applicant for a sales representative or manager’s job, and to also suggest a salary for a niece or nephew for similar jobs. Participants received identical curriculum vitae (CV) for each job, but half who were randomly selected received a female name on the CV and the other half a male name. On five measures for both jobs, all female applicants and nieces “received” lower salaries than male applicants and nephews, irrespective of their gender, age, or position. Key words: Gender, wage gap, salaries, experiment, differences.
Highlights
In countries from all the habitable continents of the world, women on average earn less than men
Most studies on the gender wage gap have focused on attributes related to employees and few have utilized the experimental method
An experimental design was chosen in this research in order to control for all factors that may affect the wage gap, other than gender
Summary
In countries from all the habitable continents of the world, women on average earn less than men These include all the major economic areas of the world, that is, the United States (Kim, 2013; Konstantopoulos and Constant, 2008), China (Chen et al, 2013), Japan (Miyoshi, 2008), India (Rendall, 2012), Russia (Semykina and Linz, 2007), and all member countries of the European Union (European Commission, 2014).
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