Study gives new insight into gender pay gap, questioning previous research | DW News

A team of researchers from 15 different countries has completed a major new study on the gender pay gap. It upends previous research that suggested the gap was caused by the types of jobs men and women ended up in.
To meet that huge data challenge, the study brought together academics from 15 countries around the world including Germany, the US, Canada, Slovenia, Japan, South Korea and Israel.
The researchers had access to an unprecedented amount of data, including contractual details of workers and tax and social security data, as well as national statistics databases. Compiled over five years, it has helped provide one of the most comprehensive datasets yet compiled on the gender pay gap.
The study has upended previous research. For example, one common perception of the gender pay gap is that it is largely driven by the so-called "sorting" of women and men into different sectors, occupations and firms. In other words, men tend to end up in higher-paying professions and that's the main reason they earn more.
However, one of the major findings of the new study contradicts this. It found that in all 15 countries that were studied, the "within-job gender gap" was responsible for around 50% of the overall pay gap. This is when men and women work in the same job in the same industry or for the same company, and yet the women are still paid less.
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