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SUMMARY:'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis
  Lecture
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest spea
 ker Dame Rachel Griffith\, Professor of Economics\, reflects on the gend
 er pay gap\, and why it is still so prevalent in highly skilled work.\n\
 nThe extent to which males are paid more than females (the gender pay ga
 p) has declined considerably over the past several decades\, but much mo
 re so for workers in low paid jobs. The gender pay gap for highly skille
 d workers is still high at over 15% in the UK in 2025. Differences in pa
 y can be a concern for both equity and efficiency reasons. It is not fai
 r if people are being paid differently for the same work\, and it is ine
 fficient if similarly skilled workers do not face similar incentives to 
 work. The gender pay gap could reflect many different factors\, includin
 g the possibilities that women face different time constraints than men\
 , make systematically difference choices when faced with the same incent
 ives\, have different expectations and behave differently\, or are discr
 iminated against.\nIn this lecture Rachel will discuss recent work that 
 considers these issues by studying the gender pay gap in UK academia. Th
 e gender pay gap amongst research active academics remains high. Females
  are less present in higher paid disciplines and in senior positions\, a
 nd women who make it into higher positions receive on average lower pay.
  However\, the gender pay gap varies markedly across disciplines\, from 
 effectively zero in media studies and sociology\, to over 15% in economi
 cs\, medicine and psychology.\n\nWomen also publish fewer academic paper
 s on average. We compile new data that allows us to learn about how the 
 differences in publications relate to differences in pay between men and
  women working in the same discipline\, and to differences across discip
 lines. Differences in publications explain up to half of the gender pay 
 in some disciplines\, but very little in others.
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LOCATION:Theatre B\, Roscoe Building\, Manchester
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