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Title: A Woman' s World: Gender Discrimination in the Entertainment Industry

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: The goal of this research was to discover if there is a significant gender difference which affects total income in the entertainment industry. While I was unable to find any scholarly research on the specific issue of women in the entertainment industry, I was able to review articles regarding women in the general workforce over time as well as entertainment industry-specific trade publications. With this information, I created a model including the key variables number of children, age, age-squared, and marital status because these were seen in previous research to have an effect on women’s income. The sample that was analyzed comes from the American Community Survey between, and including, the years 2001-2017 and included only those within the occupation Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes. I also separated the male and female datasets in order to analyze the gender difference for all variables in the model as opposed to solely looking at gender’s effect on total income. Regression of the model using both datasets showed that there is a significant gender difference for all variables except for number of children for females, which is due to certain econometric factors as well as socioeconomic factors. Age and age-squared are two highly significant variables, highlighting the importance of age’s quadratic relationship with total income over time.

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Authors: Weinstein, Veronica

Institution: Pace University

Department: Economics

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender

Countries: United States