Comments on: Salary By Gender in UCD: Glass Ceiling? Other? http://www.usabilityblog.com/2006/04/salary-by-gender-in-ucd-glass-ceiling-other/ Blogging about usability, user experience and design Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jason Coleman http://www.usabilityblog.com/2006/04/salary-by-gender-in-ucd-glass-ceiling-other/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Jason Coleman Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:05:43 +0000 http://www.speechusability.com/wordpress/?p=21#comment-8 <p>I think one of the troubles you will run into analyzing this data is that the disparity in older, more experienced, workers will be larger since those people have been working through the last 10 years or so when prejudices were worse. They would have received raises and promotions based on the climate of years passed. If you give Bill and Sue both a 25% raise this year, you'd still be favoring Bill if his base salary was higher than Sue's. So it is difficult to tell what data on older workers says about current prejudices.</p> <p>So you'll be tempted to look at data of younger people. But this data is skewed too because disparities in salaries have historically (even when we were more prejudiced) been lower in younger people. This is because younger people typically have jobs that require less education and experience and thus level the playing field (since women have typically been trained and educated less in the past too).</p> <p>All I can say is good luck.</p> I think one of the troubles you will run into analyzing this data is that the disparity in older, more experienced, workers will be larger since those people have been working through the last 10 years or so when prejudices were worse. They would have received raises and promotions based on the climate of years passed. If you give Bill and Sue both a 25% raise this year, you’d still be favoring Bill if his base salary was higher than Sue’s. So it is difficult to tell what data on older workers says about current prejudices.

So you’ll be tempted to look at data of younger people. But this data is skewed too because disparities in salaries have historically (even when we were more prejudiced) been lower in younger people. This is because younger people typically have jobs that require less education and experience and thus level the playing field (since women have typically been trained and educated less in the past too).

All I can say is good luck.

]]> By: leisa.reichelt http://www.usabilityblog.com/2006/04/salary-by-gender-in-ucd-glass-ceiling-other/comment-page-1/#comment-7 leisa.reichelt Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:49:06 +0000 http://www.speechusability.com/wordpress/?p=21#comment-7 excellent. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Paul :) excellent. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with Paul :)

]]> By: Lyle http://www.usabilityblog.com/2006/04/salary-by-gender-in-ucd-glass-ceiling-other/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Lyle Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:14:37 +0000 http://www.speechusability.com/wordpress/?p=21#comment-6 You don't get any comments for the same reason that I don't: you don't post often enough. :-) I'd also like to point out that you don't have any way to comment on a post from your home page...but I don't have time to do a full heuristic eval. Maybe you could find a good, cheap usability practitioner to do a quick blog usability review for you. Know anyone good & cheap? :-) You don’t get any comments for the same reason that I don’t: you don’t post often enough. :-)

I’d also like to point out that you don’t have any way to comment on a post from your home page…but I don’t have time to do a full heuristic eval. Maybe you could find a good, cheap usability practitioner to do a quick blog usability review for you. Know anyone good & cheap?

:-)

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