Glassdoor, the world's most transparent jobs and recruiting marketplace, has released the results of its first global salary survey which measures employee sentiment around issues related to the gender pay gap.
Glassdoor Economic Research surveyed more than 500,000 individuals posting their salaries on its website, found that gender pay gap still exists. No matter how much discussion about equality in pay hits the centre stage, the team of analyst found out that women get paid less compared to men in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia and much of it is unexplained.
The researchers discovered that prior to and after adding certain statistical controls over certain factors, the average earning of men were more than the women in all the five nations.
According to the study, the unadjusted pay gap reveals that men in the United States earn 24.1 percent greater than what women do. In the United Kingdom the rate was a little less, at 22.9 percent, in Australia it was 17.3 percent, in Germany the gap was 22.5 percent, in France it was14.3 percent.
There are certain industries in which the pay gap is the widest. Among doctors, 37 percent of anesthesiologists are women. However, 71 percent of pediatricians are women, who account for the lowest paid in the profession.
Glassdoor did not find any obvious explanation for the adjusted gap. The only reason cited was how men and women negotiate their salaries, bias on employer's part or other differences which remain unexplained.
However, this data represented the earnings, without taking into account experience, education and age. When many factors like age, education, years of experience, industry, job location, and job titles are accounted for, the gender pay gap is just 5.4 percent in the United States.
Complete results are available in the Glassdoor Global Gender Pay Gap Survey Supplement which details employee perceptions of the gender pay gap at their company, whether company reputation around the gender pay gap may affect hiring, and how employees believe the gender pay gap can be fixed.
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