Do gender differences in career aspirations contribute to sticky floors?

Deschacht, Nick; Pauw, Ann‐Sophie De; Baert, Stijn

doi:10.1108/ijm-10-2015-0171

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“…This is most prominently shown in the literature on the gender pay gap, which documents a stable disadvantage for women concerning the returns of labor (see e.g., Hinz and Gartner 2005;Ridgeway 2011). We know from this research that on average, women are concentrated in specific, but often regionally dispersed (Benson 2014) labor market segments, frequently have part-time jobs, earn less than men (Altonji and Blank 1999;England 2005), and anticipate fewer career opportunities (Stroh, Brett, and Reilly 1996;Deschacht, de Pauw, and Baert 2017). Since these determinants are associated with the occupational structure, genderspecific occupations are often seen as one crucial determinant of a structural disadvantage for women.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Willingness To Move: Theoretical Consimentioning

confidence: 71%

Gender differences in willingness to move for interregional job offers

Abraham¹,

Bähr²,

Trappmann³

2019

DemRes

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BACKGROUND Interregional job offers are an important mechanism of social mobility as they provide both career chances and opportunities to avoid unemployment. We know from the literature that couples have difficulties seizing these opportunities due to the unequal distribution of costs and benefits between partners. Consequently, couples generally show a lower willingness to move for a job offer for one of the partners. However, very little is known about the differences between men and women in assessing the attractiveness of a job-related household move. OBJECTIVE Focusing on all cohabitating couples, we address whether there are gender differences in willingness to move for a better job offer and how those differences can be explained. METHODS We employ a large household survey from Germany that includes a factorial survey experiment addressing willingness to move for a hypothetical job offer. RESULTS We find that (a) within couples, women show a lower willingness to move than men, but single women do not differ from single men; (b) variables resulting from standard theories on mobility contribute to the explanation of willingness to move; and (c) gender differences persist even after controlling for these variables. CONCLUSIONS Women show a lower willingness to move for a job when they are living with a partner in a household, and this cannot be sufficiently explained by standard theories of CONTRIBUTION Our findings reveal that interregional job offers contribute to gender inequality by hampering the career options of coupled women. A comparison with early results from the United States reveals that this seems to be a general pattern that cannot be explained by standard household migration theories.

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Section: Gender Differences In Willingness To Move: Theoretical Consimentioning

confidence: 71%

Gender differences in willingness to move for interregional job offers

Abraham¹,

Bähr²,

Trappmann³

2019

DemRes

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“…One of the key components of the sticky floor concept is women’s inability to move up the career ladder and reach top positions (Baert et al, 2016; Deschacht et al, 2017; Zeng, 2011). According to different studies, sticky floor has been defined as women being trapped and stuck in the same low pay and low mobility positions at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy for a long period of time (Booth et al, 2003; Carli and Eagly, 2016; P Smith et al, 2012).…”

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Women’s entrepreneurial intention: The role of sticky floor perception and social networking

Shabsough

Semerci̇

Ergeneli

2020

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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This study examines the moderating role of social networking on the relationship between the sticky floor perception and the entrepreneurial intention of 294 women workers. Women experiencing the sticky floor feel trapped in low wage and bottom to middle-level positions for extended periods of time. This lack of advancement and frustration may lead women to seize the opportunity and establish their own businesses and become entrepreneurs. Social networking is considered one of the important factors affecting entrepreneurial intention. Nonetheless, women entrepreneurs may face greater difficulties in developing and managing networks. The results of this study indicated that social networking yields a stronger positive (negative) relationship with entrepreneurial intention among those women demonstrating a high (low) sticky floor perception. These results are crucial in understanding the encouraging role of sticky floor perception on entrepreneurial intention and raising awareness concerning the impact of social networking within the entrepreneurial context.

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“…Many studies have shown that job flexibility can have a substantial influence on the earned wages. Moreover, recent research by Deschacht et al (2017) suggests one more channel for occupational sorting. They show that young female professionals have fewer preferences for jobs that are more demanding and contain fewer routine tasks.…”

Section: The Gender Wage Gapmentioning

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Gender Wage Gaps and Skills

Christl¹,

Köppl‐Turyna²

2019

Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

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Even though the gender wage gap has narrowed in recent decades, it is still persistent in many countries. A lot of research has been carried out to understand the reasons behind the differences in wages between females and males. While traditional models and data sources were often not able to explain those differences in total, the access to new, more detailed data on human capital variables might give new insights on the topic. This chapter gives an overview about the most recent and most important literature on the gender wage gap. Additionally, the chapter gives insights into the latest research that uses specific information for skills and tasks. Recent studies have shown that those human capital variables differ across gender and significantly influence wages. Therefore detailed information on skills and tasks could shed light on the explanation of the wage gap and open many possibilities for future research.

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Do gender differences in career aspirations contribute to sticky floors?

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Gender differences in willingness to move for interregional job offers

Gender differences in willingness to move for interregional job offers

Women’s entrepreneurial intention: The role of sticky floor perception and social networking

Gender Wage Gaps and Skills

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