Again, Nature journal disseminates obvious junk research! Or you have to read the finer details to discover that the headline is extremely deceptive! As is usual with these kind of attention grabbing, ideologically motivated studies, it compares apples with oranges!
Even comparing salaries by so called "field" is a dubious comparison as men and women do not exactly work in the same kind of job! Men and women choose different jobs that a paid differently for various reasons!
"... The US National Science Foundation’s Survey of Earned Doctorates tracked more than 55,700 people who earned PhDs between 1 July 2018 and 31 June 2019, including more than 33,900 PhD recipients in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and more than 9,000 in psychology and social sciences. ...
Among those with a permanent job at hand, men reported an expected median annual salary of US$95,000. Women reported a expected median salary of $72,500, a gap of $22,500. ...
Men were over-represented in relatively high-paying fields such as computer science and engineering, but disparities persisted even within fields. Men with permanent jobs in the life sciences, for example, reported an expected median salary of $87,000, compared with $80,000 for women. In mathematics and computer sciences, men reported an expected median salary of $125,000; for women, that figure was $101,500. But the gender gap in salary essentially disappeared among postdoctoral researchers. In life sciences, for example, male and female postdocs both reported a median expected salary of $50,000. ..."
Among those with a permanent job at hand, men reported an expected median annual salary of US$95,000. Women reported a expected median salary of $72,500, a gap of $22,500. ...
Men were over-represented in relatively high-paying fields such as computer science and engineering, but disparities persisted even within fields. Men with permanent jobs in the life sciences, for example, reported an expected median salary of $87,000, compared with $80,000 for women. In mathematics and computer sciences, men reported an expected median salary of $125,000; for women, that figure was $101,500. But the gender gap in salary essentially disappeared among postdoctoral researchers. In life sciences, for example, male and female postdocs both reported a median expected salary of $50,000. ..."
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