National Board Quotas and the Gender Pay Gap among European Managers

David J Maume, Orlaith Heymann and Leah Ruppanner
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David J Maume: University of Cincinnati, USA
Orlaith Heymann: University of Cincinnati, USA
Leah Ruppanner: The University of Melbourne, Australia

Work, Employment & Society, 2019, vol. 33, issue 6, 1002-1019

Abstract: As European countries have mandated quotas for women’s representation on boards, and as women have increasingly entered the ranks of management, a persistent gender gap in managerial pay remains. Drawing a sample of managers in the 2010 European Social Survey, the gender gap in pay was decomposed, finding that employer devaluation of women accounted for the majority of the gender gap in pay. This was especially true in countries without mandated quotas, but in countries that had adopted quotas for female representation on boards, results were consistent with the proposition that quotas moderated the labour market for managers (i.e. the gender gap in managerial pay was smaller as was the portion of the gap attributable to discrimination). As board quotas have increasingly been adopted across Europe, more research is needed on their ameliorative effects on gender inequality in the wider labour market.

Keywords: board quotas; Europe; gender; managers; pay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017019864509

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