- There are similar wage gaps in countries other than the USA and Canada. In Britain, Switzerland, and Germany, women earn between about 65% and 75% of men’s pay. Women earn 50% of men’s pay in Japan. In countries such as Norway, Denmark, and Australia, women earn close to 90% of men’s pay. The salary gap is smaller in countries in which the government has instituted a policy of pay equity.
- With respect to salary, men seem to have a greater sense of entitlement; based on their membership in the male social group, they believe that they have a right to high rewards
- Men are often quickly promoted to management positions to fields associated with women such as nursing, teaching, librarian.
- Women in the workplace are more likely than men to receive negative evaluation
- Men are more likely to negotiate from the start and will ask to be promoted at a far greater frequency. If women start behind salary-wise at the beginning of their careers, it becomes nearly impossible to ever catch up with men.
- If a woman graduated from college they will lose $1.2 million compared to a man getting a degree along with them.
- If you’re a young woman who graduated last summer from high school, you will earn$700,000 less than the young man standing in line with you to get his diploma over your working life.
- The school life expectancy (primary to tertiary) is 17 years for women and only 15 years for men.