Study: Gender Pay Gap Caused By Girls Aspiring to Lower-Paid Jobs
n important driver behind the so-called gender pay gap is that teenage girls aspire to lower-paid careers than boys, according to a major new study.
Analysing data collected from nearly 8,000 teenagers in Britain, researchers at University College London (UCL)’s Institute for Education found that the careers 14-year-old girls highlighted as their ideal future jobs paid 27 per cent or £6.49 less per hour than those chosen by boys of the same age.
While both sexes named high-paying careers among their top jobs, researchers found that a significant pay gap between the choices of the two groups remained even after they excluded from calculations the aspirations of boys who wanted to become highly-paid professional sports stars.
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