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Seventy-eight pennies for your thoughts: An examination of income inequality between men and women in the United States
Dingler, Elizabeth Joann
Dingler, Elizabeth Joann
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2009-05
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In today’s society education credentials are more important than in the past; individuals
increasingly need a higher educational degree to maintain employment and increase their future
income. Education allows individuals to increase their productivity which will increase their
worth to an employer and make them desirable employees. Even though women outnumber men
in college enrollments women still get paid less than men. This research attempts to explain the
factors that lead to men’s increase in better pay over women even though women outnumber
men in higher educational attainment. This research uses secondary data analysis from the
March 2008 Current Population Survey consisting of 76,995 respondents. This study uses the
alternative model which is comprised of three components; the individual, structural, and gender
components each with individual level factors used to help explain the inequality in income
between men and women. Univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analysis were used to examine
the independent effects on income. The results suggest that men are seen in occupations that are
mostly dominated by males and have higher rates of returns than occupations women are seen in.
Even when women are in the same occupations as men, controlling for all other factors, women
still earn less than men.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Sociology
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Wichita State University