Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-2013

Abstract

Although pay differences between men and women with comparable characteristics are generally smaller in the nonprofit than in the for-profit sector, gender pay gaps in the nonprofit sector vary widely across industries. In some industries, gender pay gaps are as large as in the for-profit sector, but in others, women make more than comparably qualified men. Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling on the combined 2001-2006 American Community Surveys, we test nonprofit labor motivation theories against a gendered-job hypothesis to explain this variation. We find that gender pay gaps in the nonprofit sector are smaller in industries where nonprofits outnumber for-profits and where higher proportions of female-dominated occupations exist.

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Author accepted manuscript version of:

Lewis Faulk, Lauren Hamilton Edwards, Gregory B. Lewis, and Jasmine McGinnis. (2013). An Analysis of Gender Pay Disparity in the Nonprofit Sector: An Outcome of Labor Motivation or Gendered Jobs?Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 42: 1268-1287.

Final version available at: doi:10.1177/0899764012455951

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