Science and Engineering Majors in the Federal Service: Lessons for Eliminating Sexual and Racial Inequality
- Authors
- Oh, Seong Soo; Kim, Jungbu
- Issue Date
- Mar-2015
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
- Keywords
- STEM majors; women and minorities; federal service; pay disparity
- Citation
- REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, v.35, no.1, pp.24 - 46
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
- Volume
- 35
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 24
- End Page
- 46
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/143797
- DOI
- 10.1177/0734371X13504117
- ISSN
- 0734-371X
- Abstract
- This study explores how the gender and racial composition of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) portion of the federal workforce has changed, and how female and minority employees with STEM degrees compare with White majorities and those with degrees in non-STEM fields. Using a series of ordinary least square analyses of a 1% random sample of federal employees for 1983, 1996, and 2009, this study finds that gender and racial pay disparities have decreased over the study period, and that the extant gender pay gap can be explained largely by educational attainment, work experience, and particularly by the changing composition in STEM majors. Despite the decrease in pay disparity, a racial pay gap still remains even after controlling for education level, federal experience, and other major factors.
- Files in This Item
- There are no files associated with this item.
- Appears in
Collections - 서울 정책과학대학 > 서울 행정학과 > 1. Journal Articles
![qrcode](https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?size=55x55&data=https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/143797)
Items in ScholarWorks are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.