May 10, 2024 - Technology
Job satisfaction gender gap
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For the seventh consecutive year, women reported being less satisfied with their jobs than men, according to a new Conference Board survey.
The big picture: Considering the long-standing gender gap in pay and other workplace inequities, perhaps it's not shocking that there's also a difference in the way men and women feel about their jobs.
Zoom in: In almost every aspect of work The Conference Board asked about — from pay to quality of leadership to benefits — women were less happy.
- The biggest divergences were in their opinions about company bonus plans, health benefits and growth opportunities.
Context: The gender gap wasn't very wide — and sometimes didn't exist at all — in the first few years after The Conference Board started tracking it in 2011.
- But in 2017 it broadened out — coinciding with the emergence of the #MeToo movement, effectively a nationwide feminist consciousness-raising.
