Higher Education Protects Women from Gender-
And mitigates discrimination in the labour market
Women typically earn 18%-20% less than men do with the same education, profession and personal characteristics, researchers from the Higher School of Economics found using data from an employment survey of young personnel. What’s more, this income gap has a cumulative effect, growing wider the longer a woman works. Education, however, significantly compensates for this ‘penalty’. College graduates experience less discrimination in terms of salaries.
Largely due to the division into ‘male’ (more highly paid) and ‘female’ occupations, and because women tend to choose less remunerative professions. However, the other reasons for this gender ‘penalty’ remain difficult to explain. IQ.HSE examined this issue help of a study by Margarita Kiryushina and Victor Rudakova.
A penalty for gender
‘My co-worker earns more than I do, but it’s not clear why’, Natalia R. (27), a with the magic of creative ideas in b2b marketing the systems analyst, told IQ.HSE. ‘We have exactly the same experience and job titles. I don’t seem to be worse than him in any way, yet my salary is lower’. ‘I asked management why Nikita communication between marketing and sales is especially got a raise even though we joined [the bank] at the same time and the same position. My boss laughed it off, saying something like, ‘You can’t sit at work for days at a time — you’re a girl’.
According to the study
Women’s salaries amount to 70%-80% of men’s salaries — and this is a worldwide phenomenon. According to World Economic Forum data, women earn, on average, 68% as much as men. In Russia, that figure in 2017 was 71.7%, according to agb directory the Federal State Statistics Service. As of 2019, it ranged from 68.2% in the IT industry to 95.2% in the field of education. As of March of this year, according to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, ‘the gap in wages between men and women’ was 72.1%.