Abstract
Previous studies found contradictory results on whether women benefit in terms of earnings from having a female manager. This mixed-method study draws on survey data from the Netherlands to determine whether female employees have higher wages if they work under a female manager and combines these with data from interviews with Dutch female managers to interpret and contextualize its findings. The survey data show that having a female manager does not affect the wages of female (or male) employees in the Netherlands. The interviews revealed different ways in which managers can improve outcomes for female employees and suggest several reasons as to why some female managers experience a lack of motivation to enhance female employees’ earnings. This detailed focus on mechanisms that underlie female managers position to act as ‘cogs in the machine’ emphasizes the importance of incorporating context and looking at outcomes other than earnings in future research.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1462–1479 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Work, Employment and Society |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 26 May 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - Dec 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was made possible by funding from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
Funding
The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was made possible by funding from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |
Keywords
- female manager
- gender pay gap
- mixed-methods
- multilevel analyses
