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Practice What You Preach: The Gender Pay Gap in Labor Union Compensation
Author(s) -
Aleks Rachel,
Saksida Tina,
Kolahgar Sam
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/irel.12291
Subject(s) - gender pay gap , wage , compensation (psychology) , labour economics , gender gap , face (sociological concept) , demographic economics , political science , economics , psychology , sociology , social psychology , social science
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.