Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations.
Motherhood and the Wages of Women in Professional Occupations.
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10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.05
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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McDaniel, Anne
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作者：
Buchmann, Claudia;McDaniel, Anne
众所周知，母亲的工资低于无子女的妇女，而父亲的工资往往高于无子女的男子，但我们不知道这些发现是否适用于所有职业的工人。利用1980年和2010年的IPUMS和ACS数据，我们研究了职业分布中最受欢迎的高学历专业人员的家庭工资差距。结果表明，随着时间的推移，在所有职业中，母亲的负工资差异的大小都有所下降。此外，在STEM、医学和法律等传统上男性占主导地位的职业中，有子女的妇女经历了正的工资差异，而在女性占主导地位的职业中，她们的同行继续经历负的工资差异。随着时间的推移，父亲身份的正差异保持稳定。这些研究结果强调了妇女在兼顾工作和家庭方面的经验日益多样化，并提出了需要进一步研究的重要问题。
It is well established that mothers are paid less than childless women and that fathers tend to earn higher wages relative to childless men, but we do not know whether these findings apply to workers in all occupations. Using IPUMS and ACS data from 1980 and 2010, we examine the family wage gap for highly educated professionals, the most advantaged sector of the occupational distribution. Results indicate that the size of the negative wage differential for motherhood has declined over time in all professions. Moreover, in the traditionally male-dominated professions of STEM, medicine, and law, women with children experience a positive wage differential, whereas their counterparts in female-dominated professions continue to experience a negative one. The positive differential for fatherhood has remained stable over time. These findings underscore the growing heterogeneity of women's experiences in combining work and family and raise important questions for further research.