Why women do not ask: gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth
研究发现女性更倾向于认为自己的工资公平，这种性别差异在已婚女性中更明显；认为工资不公平的人后续工资增长更快，说明公平感差异可能通过影响谈判行为进而解释性别工资差距。
This article analyses gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main finding is that women perceive their wage more often as fair if controls for hourly wage rates, individual and job-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This points to the fact that social norms, gender roles and gender identity are at least partly responsible for the gap in fairness perceptions. Further analysis shows that individuals, who perceive their wage as unfair, experience larger wage growth in subsequent years. An explanation would be that a wage perceived as unfair triggers negotiations for a better wage or induces individuals to search for better-paid work. Thus, differences in fair own wage perceptions can contribute to explain the nowadays still persistent gender wage gap.