In this journal club, we will discuss the findings of Joshua Minot et al. in arXiv:2307.08580.
Across US occupations, language differences between male and female resumes correspond to 11% of the variation in gender pay gap. This suggests that females’ resumes that are semantically similar to males’ resumes may have greater wage parity. However, surprisingly, occupations with greater language differences between male and female resumes have lower gender pay gaps. A doubling of the language difference between female and male resumes results in an annual wage increase of $2,797 for the average female worker. Why does it happen?
We encourage you to download the arxiv and read it. It's shorter than it seems: a lot of pages are mainly tables and figures of supplementary material.
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