Pay gap in occupational groups
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| In the group of legislators, general directors and chief officials of interest representation men are one and a half as much as women, thus their above average income raises their average wage in a greater extent. Namely, this is the pay gap causing structural factor. The group causing the strongest structural effect is that of occupations requiring no qualification: here, women’s rate is one and a half times bigger than that of men, thus low incomes in this group affect more women’s wages than that of men’s. Wages obtained in those groups where above average incomes are coupled with higher rate of women (occupation requiring the independent use of higher educational degree, occupations requiring other higher educational or secondary educational degree) or below average income is coupled with higher rate of women (agricultural and forestry; industry and construction; machinists, machinery assemblers, drivers) in theory, pay gap due to structural causes would have to diminish. Nevertheless, the fact that both in the group of occupations requiring independent use of higher educational degree and in that of occupations requiring higher educational or secondary educational degree there is a high pay gap (23% and 20%) shows that positive structural effect is deteriorated by a strong effect of discrimination towards women. Naturally, in different occupational groups the composition of men and women can be different concerning other characteristics effecting their income (qualification, work experience, etc.) After all, the totality of effects determines the inequality between the income of men and women. |