The nonprofit sector embraces equity as a core value, while the majority of the nonprofit workforce is women. However, traditionally, women have been underrepresented in leadership roles in the sector, and they’ve been paid less than their male counterparts for doing the same jobs.
Nathan J. Grasse, Associate Professor, MPNL program, Carleton University
New research examines differences in the compensation of male and female executive directors and chief financial officers in nonprofit organizations. The authors, including Carleton’s Nathan Grasse, use executive transition periods within organizations as an empirical strategy for isolating how gender impacts the salaries of two people who occupy the same role in the same organization. They analyzed compensation data on IRS 990 tax forms (publicly available forms completed by US nonprofit organizations) from the past two decades.
The good news is that more women hold executive positions and that some types of gaps in pay within organizations are relatively small. The bad news is that larger differences in pay result from an over-representation of male executives in the largest and highest-paying nonprofits.
Here’s a link to the full article: “Some Good News, More Bad News: Two Decades of the Gender Pay Gap for Nonprofit Directors and Chief Financial Officers.”
A paper about gender wage gaps in the private sector comes to similar conclusions as the study above
Gender Pay Gaps Among Board Directors and Officers in Canada, from Statistics Canada (Oct. 15, 2024), is an 18-page paper based on annualized data from Canada’s 2021 Census and the Canada Revenue Agency’s tax data. Written by Dante Frias Corona, Léa‑Maude Longpré‑Verret and Michelle Ouyang, the paper finds that less than one‑quarter of executive positions are occupied by women.
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Thursday, August 8, 2024 in Data Discoveries, For homepage, News & Events
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