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WAPPP research fellow Shiya Wang will present her research with co-author Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School Adina Sterling on gender differences in initial salary offers. Their research finds suggestive evidence that the gender offer gap is higher in occupations with more masculine-typed tasks, compared to occupations with more feminine-typed tasks. They conclude with an exploration into how an understanding of the gender offer gap contributes to research on gender inequality, labor markets, and organizations.

In this seminar Shiya Wang will present her study, with co-author and Columbia Business School professor Adina Sterling, that overcomes this empirical challenge by For their study, the co-authors obtained data on more than 700,000 initial salary offers provided to job candidates in the United States from 2017 to 2020, which allowed them to conduct the first investigation of initial salary offers in the literature. Their research finds suggestive evidence that the gender offer gap is higher in occupations with more masculine-typed tasks, compared to occupations with more feminine-typed tasks. They conclude with an exploration into how an understanding of the gender offer gap contributes to research on gender inequality, labor markets, and organizations.

Shiya Wang is a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School who studies how and why gender differences in earnings and career trajectories arise, as well as interventions that could mitigate these inequalities. Her ongoing projects focus on the hiring process as a critical site for the production and reproduction of the gender wage gap. 

Adina D. Sterling joined Columbia Business School in 2023 as the Katherine Phillips Associate Professor of Business in the Management Division. Adina’s research advances an understanding of how inequality persists in labor markets and workplaces, despite the efforts of many leaders to create fair and equitable organizations.

This virtual seminar is part of the Women and Public Policy Program's weekly spring seminar series Make Work Fair, which gives participants an opportunity to engage with research related to the topics discussed in the book 'Make Work Fair' by Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi. Attendance is open to all.