Gender Differences in Pay Levels: An Examination of the Compensation of University Presidents

Dane P. Blevins (), Steve Sauerwald (), Jenny M. Hoobler () and Christopher J. Robertson ()
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Dane P. Blevins: Department of Management, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816
Steve Sauerwald: Department of Managerial Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607
Jenny M. Hoobler: Department of Human Resource Management, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
Christopher J. Robertson: Department of International Business and Strategy, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Organization Science, 2019, vol. 30, issue 3, 600-616

Abstract: Our paper studies how gender and organizational status affect a university president’s compensation. Similar to previous findings, we hypothesize that women will receive less pay than men. However, we go beyond a dyadic view of individual differences to examine gender’s impact on compensation, and we explicate the importance of institutional forces in understanding the gender pay gap. In doing so, we rely on organizational status and hypothesize that the gender pay gap will be less pronounced as a university’s status rises. Although we find that the gender pay gap persists within the university president context, we also find that as a university’s status rises, the pay gap declines. Moreover, our findings show that the gender pay gap disappears at higher-status universities. Hence, accounting for where the glass ceiling is broken is an important consideration in understanding the gender pay gap. In sum, by integrating a broader institutional perspective to explain gender differences in pay levels, our paper demonstrates the importance of contextualizing gender to better understand its effects on compensation.

Keywords: compensation; gender; university presidents; institutions; status (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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