{"id":18193,"date":"2020-01-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/01\/10\/adjusted-gender-pay-gap-narrows-over-more-than-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T17:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T09:31:58","slug":"adjusted-gender-pay-gap-narrows-over-more-than-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2020\/01\/10\/adjusted-gender-pay-gap-narrows-over-more-than-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusted gender pay gap narrows over more than a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18194\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18194\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-1166463778-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-1166463778-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-1166463778-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-1166463778-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-1166463778-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/iStock-1166463778-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: twinsterphoto\/iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A study conducted by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Associate Professor Jessica Pan (NUS Department of Economics) found that the adjusted gender gap in median pay has decreased from 8.8% in 2002 to 6% \u2013 or $342 a month \u2013 in 2018. However, this still means that a woman may be earning less than her male colleague of the same age and education level despite doing the same job. The researchers said that the adjusted gender pay gap could be due to factors such as firm type, job scope, parenthood, and work experience. The effect of parenthood was reaffirmed by a MOM spokesman who cited other studies that found that the cost of parenthood was a big factor in the gender pay gap. Statistics showed that married working women rather than married working men are more likely to be the ones shouldering care-giving responsibilities and housework.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the study found that the unadjusted gender pay gap \u2013 without removing effects of age, education, occupation, industry, and usual hours \u2013 has increased from 16% in 2002 to 16.3% in 2018. This is because higher-paying roles such as company heads, as well as software developers and analysts, are still male-dominated even though more women are now in professional, manager, executive, and technician occupations.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/manpower\/adjusted-gender-pay-gap-narrows-over-more-than-a-decade\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study conducted by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and Associate Professor Jessica Pan (NUS Department of Economics) found that the adjusted gender gap in median pay has decreased from 8.8% in 2002 to 6% \u2013 or $342 a month \u2013 in 2018. However, this still means that a woman may be earning less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":18194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28685,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18193\/revisions\/28685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}