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Title: The Gender Wage Gap in Technologically Intensive Occupations: Has Technology Fostered Equality?

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: This article examined gender wage inequality, which in 1973 Ronald Oaxaca surmised could only be partly described by characteristic differences between the sexes and the remainder due to discrimination. Specifically, this paper examined the gender wage difference in jobs using Information Technology (IT) intensively. It determined that the gender wage gap was smaller for technologically intensive positions than that of traditional occupations. In this article, two regressions were run: one representing all occupations and one with data from technology intensive professions. In the first data set, gender was found to play a major determinant of wages and was responsible for the 41 percent penalty that the typical American woman paid for simply being female in todays labor market. The second regression found that in IT fields, men and women were not paid significantly different wages.

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Authors: Moreno, Melissa Gearhart

Periodical (Full): Nebraska Economics and Business Association Journal

Issue: 1

Volume: 37

Pages: 1-11

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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