Female graduates receive lower starting salaries than their male counterparts
Gepubliceerd: 27 June 1999
On 14 June 1999, the Swedish Association of Graduates in Law, Business Administration and Economics, Computer and Systems Science, Personnel Management and Social Sciences (Jusek) presented the results of its latest labour market investigation. It found that female lawyers, personnel managers and information technology technicians earn a lower starting salary in their profession than their male colleagues. The phenomenon tends to follow women with an academic education when their salaries are reviewed.
A survey published in June 1999 by the Swedish Association of Graduates in Law, Business Administration and Economics, Computer and Systems Science, Personnel Management and Social Sciences indicates that female graduates beginning their career in these sectors receive lower starting salaries than their male counterparts.
On 14 June 1999, the Swedish Association of Graduates in Law, Business Administration and Economics, Computer and Systems Science, Personnel Management and Social Sciences (Jusek) presented the results of its latest labour market investigation. It found that female lawyers, personnel managers and information technology technicians earn a lower starting salary in their profession than their male colleagues. The phenomenon tends to follow women with an academic education when their salaries are reviewed.
The survey is based upon interviews with just over 4,000 men and women who graduated from college in 1998 and 1997. Jusek has 52,000 members and is one of the largest trade unions within the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations, (Sveriges Akademikers Centralorganisation, SACO).
The pay discrimination, according to the survey, starts immediately on taking up employment. The discrimination is worse in the private sector, where newly employed young women receive on average almost SEK 1,000 less per month than their male equivalents - SEK 16,600 per month as a starting salary compared with SEK 17,500. In the municipal sector, the average starting salaries are SEK 15,450 and SEK 16,500 respectively. Only in the government sector is the starting salary the same for females and males, at SEK 16,000. Many newly employed graduates receive a pay increase during their first year. The women in the private sector are given an average 15% increase while their male counterparts receive 21%. The differences are largest in the information technology business, where young men earn an average of SEK 1,000 more per month than their female counterparts.
Eurofound beveelt aan om deze publicatie als volgt te citeren.
Eurofound (1999), Female graduates receive lower starting salaries than their male counterparts, article.
