Great work analyzing all the articles and data below! There are gender pay gaps indeed, but I think there are more factors that determine the salary than just dividing the groups into the two. Some people work over time to earn more, and some don't because they might value spending time with their family or friends more than working over hours. In regards to gender wage gap in OWU athletics, there may be various factors that determine the wages of each person. Though I cannot determine what they are, but I would assume the differences in career (Eg: how long he/ she has been working in this field), demand of the atheletic instructors between gender, how often men/ women sports teams play in different games, etc. However if the data shows that they are of equal standing and basically doing the exact same work, that is a problem to be solved. Individuals must be assessed for their capability and effort they put in the job, not by gender and/ or ethnicity.
This is a super interesting compilation of data! I think societal differences and shifts within the last few decades are certainly at work here, but the residuals of these structural discrepancies are still very apparent. While the socially constructed "taboo" of discussing wages is also surely a factor, the rising cost of childcare might also play into these differences on a national level (at least in the US) and the double penalty that mothers face reinforces these gaps. Hopefully, a push for transparency and truly unbiased application and selection processes could help ameliorate these gaps.
This research certainly brought to light not only an economic issue, but a social issue as well. Sometimes we don’t realize how close to home these gender-based discrepancies are. I wish we could have seen all the factors, variables, data, and numbers that are considered when the OWU wages were being measured to give us a better understanding of how the “Total of Head Coaches’ Salaries” were determined. Although, for such a large problem to be present on the small-scale, shows just how deeply rooted this issue is. Title 9 has made progress on campus with its’ sexual harassment focus (seen from posters in the bathrooms), but this might be another matter entirely. However, without all the details from OWU’s process of discerning wages, one cannot act or make assumptions about the gap.
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Great work analyzing all the articles and data below!
There are gender pay gaps indeed, but I think there are more factors that determine the salary than just dividing the groups into the two. Some people work over time to earn more, and some don't because they might value spending time with their family or friends more than working over hours.
In regards to gender wage gap in OWU athletics, there may be various factors that determine the wages of each person. Though I cannot determine what they are, but I would assume the differences in career (Eg: how long he/ she has been working in this field), demand of the atheletic instructors between gender, how often men/ women sports teams play in different games, etc.
However if the data shows that they are of equal standing and basically doing the exact same work, that is a problem to be solved. Individuals must be assessed for their capability and effort they put in the job, not by gender and/ or ethnicity.
This is a super interesting compilation of data! I think societal differences and shifts within the last few decades are certainly at work here, but the residuals of these structural discrepancies are still very apparent. While the socially constructed "taboo" of discussing wages is also surely a factor, the rising cost of childcare might also play into these differences on a national level (at least in the US) and the double penalty that mothers face reinforces these gaps. Hopefully, a push for transparency and truly unbiased application and selection processes could help ameliorate these gaps.
This research certainly brought to light not only an economic issue, but a social issue as well. Sometimes we don’t realize how close to home these gender-based discrepancies are. I wish we could have seen all the factors, variables, data, and numbers that are considered when the OWU wages were being measured to give us a better understanding of how the “Total of Head Coaches’ Salaries” were determined. Although, for such a large problem to be present on the small-scale, shows just how deeply rooted this issue is. Title 9 has made progress on campus with its’ sexual harassment focus (seen from posters in the bathrooms), but this might be another matter entirely. However, without all the details from OWU’s process of discerning wages, one cannot act or make assumptions about the gap.
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