Benjamin Artz, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-at Oshkosh; Amanda Goodall, PhD, of London-based Cass Business School; and Andrew Oswald, D.Phil, of the University of Warwick (England), surveyed 4,600 randomly-selected employees across 800 workplaces in Australia in 2014.
The researchers asked employees about their motives for asking for a raise and their history related to pay. Controlling for all other factors including education and age, they found that women who asked for a raise obtained one 15 percent of the time while their male counterparts received them 20 percent of the time.
“Perhaps women have always asked more than they’ve gotten credit for, and more detailed data just allows us to finally see it. The bottom line is that the patterns we have found are consistent with the idea that women’s requests for advancement are treated differently from men’s requests,” the authors write. “Asking does not mean getting — at least if you are a female.”
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