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Article

22 Jun 2016

Author:
Tom Starner, HR Dive (USA)

USA : Gender wage gap widens at age 32, study finds

"Is the 'manager divide' a critical factor in the gender wage gap?", 20 Jun 2016

Despite all the media hype on how US employers are trying hard to help women succeed after having a baby, it's that group which continues to pay the price in career advancement and wages for starting a family, according to a new study.

The Visier Insights Gender Equity report…uncovers a direct correlation between the "manager divide," a growing underrepresentation of women compared to men in manager positions from age 32 onwards, and a widening of the gender wage gap for large US employers.

…[E]liminating the manager divide, which coincides with the years in which women typically have children, would cut the gender wage gap by nearly one third…

…To Schwarz [Visier’s CEO], employers have good intentions to achieve gender equity, but have been lost in chaotic and conflicting data sources…