Gender-based salary inequity in social work: Mediators of gender's effect on salary

Social Work

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 309-317

  Koeske, Gary F ^a   Krowinski, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gender; Merit variables; Salary inequity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PREJUDICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL WORK; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 2542572502     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/49.2.309     Document Type: Article

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