GENDER PAY GAP:

DEMYSTIFYING THE
INEQUALITY
AN ANOMALISTIC PERSPECTIVE TO THE DIFFERENCES IN THE AVERAGE
HOURLY EARNINGS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN A WORKFORCE.
`TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
*Introduction: Gender Pay Gap, Reports, Statistics, Facts and Figures.
*Causes of the Gender Pay Gap:
*The Devil’s of the Details: The Big Five Personality Traits.
How men and women differ in these traits?
* Diving Deep into Gender Pay Gap Statistics- STUDY
*Concluding Thoughts.
Gender Pay Gap: INTRODUCTION
-Gender Pay Gap is the difference in average gross hourly earnings between men and women.
-According to the recent report of UN WOMEN, Women earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men.
- On the recent Equal Pay Day in US, an analytical report was published stating-
For every dollar, a White man makes:
Asian women make 85 cents, White Women make 79 cents, American Indian/Alaskan Native
women make 60 cents and Hispanic or Latino women make 55 cents.
- In India, the women earns 19% less than women, according to the Monster Salary Index(MSI).
- According to ILO, women are paid on an average 20% less than men across the world.
- According to Gender Gap Report 2021, women still earn around 37% less than women in similar roles.
CAUSES OF GENDER PAY GAP:
1. PATRIARCHY: PRIMARY NARRATIVE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS-
-Deep seated male dominance,
-men gained positions of power before women,
-Perpetual discrimination and regulation of money earned by women.
2. Women chose to work in low- paid roles and sectors.
Based on the Report, two arguments can be made:
i- Men tend to take up such high paying jobs because of the patriarchal incumbency to earn more and be
the bread winner of the family.
ii- There are inherent biological and psychological differences between men and women which leads to
men taking those jobs which happen to be highly paid.
3. Women are paid less than men for the same role.
-Injustice or Men or Women are different from each other?
The DEVILS of the Details: THE BIG-FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS
THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY TRAITS ANALYSES THE IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF HUMAN PERSONALITY:
EXTRAVERSION: characterized by excitability, sociability, talkativeness, and high amounts of
emotional expressiveness, sensitivity towards rewards.
AGREEABLENESS: Includes attributes like trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and other pro-social
behaviours.
NEUROTICISM: Includes traits like, sadness, moodiness, and emotional instability. They tend to
experience mood swings, anxiety, irritability and sadness. Those who are low tend to be more stable
and emotionally resilient.
Conscientiousness: defined by high levels of thoughtfulness, good impulse control, and goal- directed
behaviours. These people tend to be more organised and mindful of details. Someone scoring lower
in this primary personality trait is less structured and less organized. They may procrastinate to get
things done, sometimes missing deadlines completely.
OPENNESS: Openness (also referred to as openness to experience) emphasizes imagination and
insight the most out of all five personality traits. People who are high in openness tend to have a
broad range of interests. They are curious about the world and other people and are eager to learn
new things and enjoy new experiences.
HOW MEN AND WOMEN DIFFER IN THESE TRAITS?
With regards to EXTRAVERSION, on an overall level, Women tend to score higher than women,
in the facet level, women score high on warmth, gregariousness and compassionate while men
score high on Assertiveness and Excitement Seeking. Men tend to be more dominant and agentic
than women, and exhibit higher levels of these traits.
CONSCIOUSTIOUSNESS, Women score somewhat higher than men, with the virtues like order,
dutifulness and self- discipline.
AGREEABLENESS, Women predominantly score higher than men and related measures, such
as tender mindedness.
NEUROTICISM, Women tend to score higher than men in all other facets of this trait except the
Anger or Anger hostility, where men score higher.
OPENNESS, No significant divergence was found on this trait at the domain level.
DIVING DEEP INTO GENDER PAY GAP STATISTICS

Book: The Personality Psychology BY David Buss

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CONCLUDING THOUGHTS:
-Gender Pay Gap not only Socially Construct.
- Choices of men and women at jobs driven by biological and psychological.
- Reducing the Social Construct will not result in completely closing the Pay Gap. (ICELAND’s
law).