Practice What You Preach: The Gender Pay Gap in Labor Union Compensation

Rachel Aleks, Tina Saksida and Sam Kolahgar

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2021, vol. 60, issue 4, 403-435

Abstract: The existence of a gender pay gap has been well established in the literature but has remained unexplored within unions. Using 2000–2019 LM‐2 data, our study quantifies the gender pay gap among union officers and staff in United States national and local unions. We find evidence that women face a gender wage penalty, with female officers in local unions and female staff in both national and local unions being paid significantly less than their male counterparts.

Date: 2021
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