Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages

By Youngjoo Cha, Kim A. Weeden. 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “35 In related work, Cha and Weeden (2014) examine the role of an increase in the prevalence of long (fifty or more) work hours and the rising returns to long hours in slowing convergence in the gender wage gap during the 1979–2009 period.”
Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How ‘female-typical’ work tasks and working-time arrangements affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates (2016, background): “Moreover, occupations with a high share of workers reporting overtime pay higher wages (Busch, 2013) and also explain changes in the gender wage gap for the US (Cha and Weeden, 2014).”
A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter (2014, background): “…their careers, earnings by gender are almost identical among MBAs graduating from the University of Chicago Booth School from 1990 to 2006.37 But 35 Cha and Weeden (2013) explore the role of “overwork” and the rising premium to it from 1979 to 2009 in slowing the narrowing of the gender gap in…”
“Family-Friendly” Jobs and Motherhood Pay Penalties: The Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements Across the Educational Spectrum (2019, background): “The “career devotion schema,” which dictates that work should be an all-encompassing commitment (Blair-Loy, 2003; Stone & Hernandez, 2013), is especially common in professional and managerial jobs, and expectations of long hours are deeply embedded in organizational cultures (Cha & Weeden, 2014).”
Do Highly Paid, Highly Skilled Women Experience the Largest Motherhood Penalty? (2016, background): “For example, in cases where working long hours is highly rewarded, with little flexibility in which hours are worked, women, especially mothers, will be more disadvantaged (Cha and Weeden 2014; Goldin 2014; Herr and Wolfram 2012).”
The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings (2018, background): “Feminist scholars have shown how gender permeates class in the labor process (Hochschild 2012; Salzinger 2003), consumption patterns (Cohen 2003; Illouz 1997; Mears 2010), and the macro system of economic stratification (Cha and Weeden 2014; Gilman 1999; Ridgeway 2011).”
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “25 In particular, Cha and Weeden (2014) show that rising returns to overwork, defined as working 50 or more hours per week, coupled with the gender gap in the propensity to work overtime, worked to slow the convergence of the gender wage gap during the 1979 to 2009 period by an estimated 10 percent…”
When Time Binds: Substitutes for Household Production, Returns to Working Long Hours, and the Skilled Gender Wage Gap (2019, background): “Looking forward, given the secular increase in the returns to working long hours in many skilled occupations (Kuhn and Lozano 2008; Cha and Weeden 2014), our results suggest that if the rise in the returns to working overtime remain unchecked, persisting gender differences in the propensity to work…”