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...Students have launched their own efforts to bridge the gender gap...
...gender gap is narrowest in sectors that publicize information about starting salaries, according to research by Babcock and the Kennedy School’s Bowles. “So, one thing that career services [at Harvard] could do to help diminish the gap is to provide students with good information about the appropriate compensation standards for the types of jobs they are negotiating,” Bowles wrote in an e-mail...
...According to Iversen, another possible explanation for the gender gap is “statistical discrimination.” Employee training can be an expensive endeavor, and companies are fearful that female workers will take leaves of absence for maternity and child-rearing after the training process is over. That might make companies more wary of hiring women. “Controlling for career choices, I believe most of the gender difference in pay is due to statistical discrimination,” Iversen wrote in an e-mail...
...Since most of the gap is due to the way labor markets work, combined with inequality in family responsibilities, it is probably unrealistic to expect Harvard to have a big impact,” according to Iversen. But he added that Harvard “has a responsibility to educate about the underlying causes of gender inequality, which in turn may affect public policies...
...MIND THE GAP...