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- Title
Sex Segregation and Salary Structure in Academia.
- Authors
Fox, Mary Frank
- Abstract
This article reports a study of aggregate unit salary levels, within a major research university. We analyze these salary levels, as they are influenced by unit sex composition, and modified by unit attainment levels—where unit refers to the departments, colleges and schools, and other academic divisions of the university. We investigate three central issues of sex and salary, previously overlooked in salary studies of academic employees: Do high proportions of women depress men's unit salary levels ("competition" hypothesis)? Are women's salary levels higher in male-dominated, and lower in female-dominated, units ("concentration" hypothesis)? Are men salary-compensated for working with women ("compensation" hypothesis)? The findings support none of these hypotheses. Rather, the relationship between unit sex composition and salary rests upon the connection between units' composition and attainment levels.
- Publication
Work & Occupations, 1981, Vol 8, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0730-8884
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/073088848100800103