The gender wage gap among Uber drivers is caused by three factors.
The disparity between women and men’s pay doesn’t stop at the office or factory floor. Women UBER, +0.00% drivers earn 93 cents on the dollar compared to men, according to a recent study distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “The uniqueness of our data — knowing exactly the production and compensation functions — permits us to completely unpack the underlying determinants of the gender earnings gap,” the researchers wrote.
“This suggests that, as the gig economy grows and brings more flexibility in employment, women’s relatively high opportunity cost of non-paid-work time and gender-based preference differences can perpetuate a gender earnings gap even in the absence of discrimination,” they concluded. Earnings are not related to the time of day drivers work and the gender wage gap was not explained by the choice of customers, they added.
Jobs involving manual labor that can also double as lucrative side hustles — including plumbers, installers of household electrical equipment, repairs — are more than 98% held by men, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor. Take this, perhaps extreme, example: One handyman on TaskRabbit told MarketWatch he earns $150 per hour, roughly five times the average hourly wage.
These wage gaps increase exponentially over the years, O’Shea noted. What starts as just a couple hundred dollars each month turns into hundreds of thousands of dollars in missed funds when it comes to investing. “If men invested the extra money they made each month, the difference would be about $600,000 over 30 years,” she said. “That difference can be huge.”
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