According to a new report released by PayScale, Inc., putting family first can be costly—literally.
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PayScale’s “Inside the Gender Pay Gap” report examined data collected from approximately 1.4 million full-time U.S. employees between July 2013 and July 2015.
“One surprising and significant takeaway is that the more often a woman tells us that she prioritizes home or family obligations over work, the larger the controlled gender pay gap becomes, even when compared to men with similar characteristics who say they prioritize home and family over work with the same frequency,” says Katie Bardaro, vice president of Data Analytics and Lead Economist, PayScale.
“The largest pay gap exists between married mothers and married fathers who indicate that they prioritize family over work obligations at least once a year. However, we see no pay gap at all between single men and women without children who say they never prioritize home and family over work.”