{"id":337577,"date":"2017-04-04T23:26:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1472246"},"modified":"2017-04-04T23:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T15:26:31","slug":"in-tech-the-wage-gender-gap-worsens-for-women-over-time-and-its-worst-for-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/in-tech-the-wage-gender-gap-worsens-for-women-over-time-and-its-worst-for-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"In tech, the wage gender gap worsens for women over time, and it\u2019s worst for black women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=738\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hired.com\/gender-wage-gap-2017\">new study<\/a>\u00a0involving more than 120,000 job offers transacted on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hired.com\/\">Hired<\/a>, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate is still making less than her male peers for the same work, and sometimes far less.<\/p>\n<p>Hired\u2019s data shows that 63\u00a0percent of the time women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company, with white women\u00a0offered 4\u00a0percent less on average, and women more broadly offered up to 50\u00a0percent less in the most extreme examples. Along the same vein, for one out of every ten job openings that Hired analyzed, companies offered white men salaries that were at least 20\u00a0percent higher than those offered to women.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/chart2.png?w=953&#038;h=374\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"374\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1472321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/chart2.png 953w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/chart2.png?w=150&#038;h=59 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/chart2.png?w=300&#038;h=118 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/chart2.png?w=768&#038;h=301 768w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/chart2.png?w=680&#038;h=267 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s both terrible yet\u00a0unsurprising. According to the American Association of University Women, it might take another <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aauw.org\/article\/pay-gap-will-not-close-until-2152\/\">136 years<\/a> for the pay gap to disappear entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more illuminating in this new report is what happens to women\u2019s salaries over time, and who is receiving the lowest pay of all for the same jobs at the same companies: Latina and black women.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, unlike its inaugural study last year, Hired has segmented job applicants more narrowly this time, including by age\u00a0and ethnicity. If found that white women with four years or less of experience\u00a0actually ask for <em>more<\/em> money than their male counterparts\u00a0\u2014 possibly because they\u2019re armed with information about what the market is paying for more entry-level jobs.<\/p>\n<p>A gap in the other direction begins to appear in candidates with six or more years of experience, however, with white women in tech both asking for less than their white male counterparts and receiving it. Indeed, over time and across the country, white women in tech earn an average of .90 cents for every dollar made by their male peers for the same work.<\/p>\n<p>Less transparency into what their peers are making is one possible driver, suggests Hired\u2019s lead data scientist, Jessica Kirkpatrick. \u201cWomen at the outset might have a better idea of what appropriate salary expectations are for an entry-level job, but as they have fewer peers to compare themselves with against [as their careers evolve], it may be less clear what they should be paid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0raft of\u00a0other factors\u00a0are likely at play, too, says Kirkpatrick, citing unconscious bias during the interview process and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/content.thirdway.org\/publications\/853\/NEXT_-_Fatherhood_Motherhood.pdf\">motherhood penalty<\/a>\u00a0that sometimes impacts women who take time away from their careers to rear the children.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, far worse\u00a0is the pay gap facing Latina and black women, suggests\u00a0Hired. According to its calculations, black women earn 79 cents on the dollar to white men\u00a0\u2014 twice as large as the gap between white men and white women. Hispanic women fare only slightly better, earning 83 cents for every dollar made by their white male counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick says she hopes\u00a0Hired\u2019s study \u201chelps raise awareness so that individuals can adjust what they are asking for, and clients and companies can recognize that this is a systematic issue and adjust their practices to be more equitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, she adds, the company\u2019s\u00a0data \u201cdoes\u00a0shows that if you are an underrepresented racial minority, bias compounds\u00a0to become doubly discriminatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can scan its findings <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hired.com\/gender-wage-gap-2017\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <small>Featured Image: siraanamwong\/iStock<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=680\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=680 680w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=1360 1360w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=300 300w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/gettyimages-619735698.png?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>&nbsp;According to a new study\u00a0involving more than 120,000 job offers transacted on\u00a0Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate is still making less than her male peers for the same work, and sometimes far less. Hired&#8217;s data shows that 63\u00a0percent of the time women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company, with white&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/04\/in-tech-the-wage-gender-gap-worsens-for-women-over-time-and-its-worst-for-black-women\/?ncid=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=CY8yXYsn8Z8:d1QK32LxTkE:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/CY8yXYsn8Z8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-337577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}