The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work.
| Title: | The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work. |
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| Authors: | Burbano, Vanessa C., Folke, Olle, Meier, Stephan, Rickne, Johanna |
| Source: | Management Science; Oct2024, Vol. 70 Issue 10, p7004-7023, 20p |
| Subject Terms: | GENDER wage gap, WORK environment, GENDER differences (Sociology), GENDER inequality, BEHAVIORAL economics |
| Abstract: | An understanding of differences in nonmonetary work conditions is fundamental for a complete characterization of individuals' well-being at work. Thus, to fully characterize gender inequalities in the labor market, scholars have begun to explore gender differences in nonmonetary work conditions. We examine one such condition—meaningful work—using nationally representative survey data linked with worker and employer administrative data. We document a large and expanding gender gap in meaningful work, wherein women experience their jobs as more meaningful than men do. We then explore patterns underlying this difference. We find little correlation between women's higher experience of meaningful work and either labor market decisions related to first parenthood or women's underrepresentation in leadership jobs. Instead, the gender gap appears to be highly correlated with the sorting of more women into occupations with a high level of beneficence: the sense of having a prosocial impact. Though both women and men experience such jobs as more meaningful, women do so by a larger margin. Next, we consider the relationship between the gender difference in meaningful work and the gender wage gap, contributing to the discussion on compensating differentials in work amenities. We find that, whereas the gender gap in meaningful work closes a substantial part of the wage gap in lower paid jobs, it does little to close the gap in higher paid jobs in which the gender wage gap is largest. This paper was accepted by Yan Chen, behavioral economics and decision analysis. Funding: J. Rickne received financial support from the Wallenberg Academy Fellow Grant, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare 2019-01251. O. Folke received financial support from the Swedish Research Council 2018-00703_VR, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare 2019-01251. Supplemental Material: The online appendix and data are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.01807. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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