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Note: This entry is cross-posted from the Nonprofit Congress blog, where I blog for work.
Last week’s post on salary surveys got me thinking and researching for more information. I got a hold of some coverage of Guidestar’s 2008 Nonprofit Compensation Report.
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03.10.09
Here's a way the world really could use changing.
03.10.09
Let me play devil's advocate for a minute. There may be other reasons for some of the results. As they say "correlation is not causation". Or in other words, just because 2 different bits of inofrmation are related, it doesn't mean that one causes the other.
Here are some of the questions I would ask:
- Does any study compare the number of employment years between men and women? Perhaps women average less pay because they take time off for childrearing, and therefore lag behind men of the same age bracket. This could also be a factor in the number of CEO's that are women.
- Are women less likely to want to be CEO? Are women, in general, less focused on being at the top of a corporation?
03.10.09
@Scott M, that could be a factor when you're looking at the overall picture. However, one of the stats quoted says "At the biggest organizations, women CEO’s earned 34.8 percent less than their male counterparts."
So this is apples to apples. These women are CEOs, and their pay is significantly lower than their male counterparts. Yes, there could be other factors. But it's worth looking at those other factors and considering whether they're truly relevant, or just societal tendencies.
03.10.09
@KateNonymous - Say it again sister! I'm (sadly) not surprised that pay disparities still abound but that doesn't mean its something we can't change. Thank goodness for the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (and our new president who signed it into law).
@Scott - I echo what Kate said in terms of comparing apples to apples when it comes to the CEOs. Even so, if these women are choosing to be CEOs of human service organizations, they are still getting paid less (as noted above) because there seems to be a perception that these jobs somehow aren't as important - that is definitely not acceptable. The same thing happens elsewhere: women, whether by choice or not, work in fields that are women-dominated and are by extension somehow not as important (or so says society) and so they get paid less; see nurses, administrative positions, teachers, etc.
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