A study by Andrew M. Gill and Duane E. Leigh (2000), seeks to determine if the individual category of two-year community college contributes to the gender wage-gap. They collected data from National Longitudinal Study of Youth and compared the change in the wage-gap between 1985 and 1990 with that of the period between 1989 and 1994. Using a decomposition strategy, Gill and Leigh (2000) manage to divide their data into observable effects and unobservable effects on the wage-gap. In the beginning of their paper, they note how most literature tends to use the broad “some college” category when analyzing the wage-gap. Ultimately their study tries to find specifically how community college and two-year colleges – sub-categories within “some college”
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Though we will not be looking specifically at the community and two-year college effects on the wage gap, we will be analyzing the effects college major choices has on the wage gap, and whether women choosing the same majors as men has helped decrease the wage gap today. In this way, we might expect similar findings to those Gill and Leigh (2000) observed regarding colleges and the wage gap.
Lisa M. Maatz, writing for Forbes magazine, researched information that will help prove that women who graduated college with the same majors as their male counterparts make less in the same fields. She focuses on the statistic that college educated females working full time were paid “an unexplained” 7% less than males with the same qualifications only a year after graduation (Maatz 2014). Maatz argues that this difference only a year after being in the workforce has extremely high consequences, such as difficulty paying back student loans-a burden that men are faced with in comparable …show more content…
They first explored education as a potential factor behind the gap. (Corbett and Hill 1) On average, they found that women earned higher slightly grades than men in college, and both genders earned their degrees at similar types of institutions (except for 34 percent of males going to “very selective schools” compared to 30 percent of females). (Corbett and Hill 1) The real gap was found in the types of majors both majors pursued, with women dominating healthcare, education, and the humanities and men dominating engineering and computer
Though we will not be looking specifically at the community and two-year college effects on the wage gap, we will be analyzing the effects college major choices has on the wage gap, and whether women choosing the same majors as men has helped decrease the wage gap today. In this way, we might expect similar findings to those Gill and Leigh (2000) observed regarding colleges and the wage gap.
Lisa M. Maatz, writing for Forbes magazine, researched information that will help prove that women who graduated college with the same majors as their male counterparts make less in the same fields. She focuses on the statistic that college educated females working full time were paid “an unexplained” 7% less than males with the same qualifications only a year after graduation (Maatz 2014). Maatz argues that this difference only a year after being in the workforce has extremely high consequences, such as difficulty paying back student loans-a burden that men are faced with in comparable …show more content…
They first explored education as a potential factor behind the gap. (Corbett and Hill 1) On average, they found that women earned higher slightly grades than men in college, and both genders earned their degrees at similar types of institutions (except for 34 percent of males going to “very selective schools” compared to 30 percent of females). (Corbett and Hill 1) The real gap was found in the types of majors both majors pursued, with women dominating healthcare, education, and the humanities and men dominating engineering and computer