Open AccessGender Gap in the Career Success of University Graduates: Effects of Work-Related Values
Author(s) -
Barbara Zimmermann
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
swiss journal of sociology/schweizerische zeitschrift für soziologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.204
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2297-8348
pISSN - 0379-3664
DOI - 10.2478/sjs-2020-0003
Subject(s) - gender gap , work (physics) , psychology , demographic economics , social psychology , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering
The article deals with the unequal career outcomes between women and men. The data from the graduate survey are used to investigate the effect of work-related values on career success. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition determines which factors can explain the gender difference. The results show that career aspirations have a more positive effect on men than on women and that a considerable proportion of the gender gap remains unexplained.