Within our research, we can perceive this effect. Across all levels, women in procurement earn 76% of men. This is about equal to pay-gaps detected across many advanced companies.
However, when examine salaries within the same job-role we should hope to see relatively even wage-levels. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Women appear to earn between 80-90% of men's wages in the same role.
It seems unsettling that in the 21st century that there still evidence of salary inequality between men and women. Indeed, in almost every advanced country in the world there is legislation that prohibits unequal pay for the same work. This may not all be down to active bias however. Many of the surveyed companies may believe that they
Aside from blunt discrimination, there are potentially other underlying sociological factors that may explain wage disparity. Women, for instance, tend to be less self-promoting than men, which may result in their losing out to males willing to make more self-aggrandizing claims to secure a top position. Similar claims are made about women's reticence to assert their own interests, whereas it is much more socially acceptable for men to behave in nakedly self-interested fashion.
Men may be better networked and therefore more connected to opportunity. Given that most of the top-job are populated by men and that, unfortunately, people still feel more comfortable making connections with those in the same gender, men are naturally hooked into a world of lucky-breaks that is entirely invisible to women. In forging female networks, the numbers are lower and this deficiency is especially felt within the higher levels.
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