Sexist Men Earn More
This is an interesting research report. Looks like, there is one more reason for me to be sexist……
University of Florida find that men who subscribe to “traditional” (read stereotypical) ideas of gender roles make more money than their peers who have a more egalitarian mindset.
Organizational psychologists Timothy Judge and Beth Livingston found that men who reported holding traditional views (that is, that women belong in the home, while men earn the money) earned on average $11,930 more annually for doing the same kind of work as men who held more egalitarian views. The reverse was true for women, to a much smaller degree. Female workers with more egalitarian views (that men and women should evenly divide the tasks at home and contribute equally to their shared finances) earned $1,052 more than women who did similar jobs but held more traditional views.
One of the possible reasons mentioned:
Why the gap persists, Judge and Livingston aren’t sure, but Judge thinks it might be have something to do with the different ways men and women sign onto new jobs. Women on the whole are less effective at negotiating salaries than men, and they tend to be less aggressive about asking for bigger salaries, or they accept employers’ offers without negotiating at all. And Judge suspects that tradition-bound women may be even worse at it than their more egalitarian counterparts: “I would posit that egalitarian women are not as susceptible to settling for less in the negotiating process,” he says.
As for those money-making traditionally minded men, Judge theorizes that if they believe they are the family’s primary breadwinner, they may show greater dedication to career and are perhaps more aggressive than other men in terms of salary negotiation. Compared with men with egalitarian attitudes, the primary breadwinner simply has more at stake. “Maybe the egalitarian guy thinks, ‘Well, I don’t have to go the extra mile because my wife and I share earning responsibilities equally,’” Judge says.
Sounds reasonable.
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