TY - JOUR
T1 - Men, women, and money
T2 - Exploring the role of gender, gender-linkage of college major and career-information sources in salary expectations
AU - Sumner, Kenneth E.
AU - Brown, Theresa J.
PY - 1996/6
Y1 - 1996/6
N2 - Research focused on salary expectations consistently reports gender-based differences in expectations for entry and peak career. Although a number of variables (e.g., value placed on work-facets, fair pay standards) have been found to mediate the relationship between gender and salary expectations, little research has attempted to assess how expectations may be formed. Based on suggestions by Martin (1989) and social comparison theory, we examined the role that sources of career information (e.g., professors, family) play in shaping college students' salary expectations. Results suggest: (1) differences in entry level salary expectations were associated with gender-linkage of college major and differences in peak salary expectations were associated with gender and gender-linkage of college major, (2) women gathered more information from female sources than did men, and men gathered more information from male sources than did women, and (3) career information was not predictive of either entry or peak salary expectations.
AB - Research focused on salary expectations consistently reports gender-based differences in expectations for entry and peak career. Although a number of variables (e.g., value placed on work-facets, fair pay standards) have been found to mediate the relationship between gender and salary expectations, little research has attempted to assess how expectations may be formed. Based on suggestions by Martin (1989) and social comparison theory, we examined the role that sources of career information (e.g., professors, family) play in shaping college students' salary expectations. Results suggest: (1) differences in entry level salary expectations were associated with gender-linkage of college major and differences in peak salary expectations were associated with gender and gender-linkage of college major, (2) women gathered more information from female sources than did men, and men gathered more information from male sources than did women, and (3) career information was not predictive of either entry or peak salary expectations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0039862320&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/BF01544318
DO - 10.1007/BF01544318
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039862320
SN - 0360-0025
VL - 34
SP - 823
EP - 839
JO - Sex Roles
JF - Sex Roles
IS - 11-12
ER -