Sociology 699F: Gender & Social Change

Bridges and Nelson, 1989

under construction

Gender gap in pay <- Bureaucratic politics

Model

• DV: Assigned pay rates in Washington state government
• job index deviation from benchmark
• setting these deviations is superficially bureaucratic, but in reality a political process
• IV: % female in job

Results:

• % female -> deviation from benchmark
• women not represented politically among actors
• setting of benchmarks also a political process

Implications:

• Organizational factors as macro determinants of gender inequality
• Combination of quantitative and qualitative methods (esp. for macro units)