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Pressed_Thumb t1_jahfjpa wrote

Reply to comment by Autistom in Gender pay gap difference in select geographies [OC] by Ok_Acanthisitta5799

Very insightful. Considering what you said, would the next step in the analysis be to normalize all salaries by dividing by the profession average?

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Riegler77 t1_jahw8a6 wrote

One's profession is not just affected by one's preference. If women are less likely to be promoted to higher-paying positions regardless of their abilities this will cause an unfair pay gap that will not show up once you normalize by position.

Anyway, even after accounting for position there is still a pay gap.

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Pressed_Thumb t1_jaicifl wrote

If that's the case, the gap would show up when normalizing for industry or sector. Actually, there might come nice insights from those normalizations.

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Autistom t1_jahhne3 wrote

Yeah that sounds like a way to do it. I would just take the pay difference in each profession separately and then made an average of that.

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