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Researchers may have found a solution to the
annoying gender-wage gap: Tell all the male CEOs to have more babies. And only
child daughters, to be precise. A new, not-yet-published study
that tracked 12 years of wage data in Denmark finds that when male CEOs had
daughters, their female employees' wages went up 1.3 percent while their male
employees only gained 0.8 percent raises. The study's authors-from Aalborg
University in Denmark, the University of Maryland, and Columbia found that
women's wages were boosted even more if the daughter was the first child of the
CEO. The researchers found that the birth of a first daughter to a male CEO
"resulted in a 1.4 percent increase in women's wages, and an approximately 0.8
percent decrease in the gender wage gap. If the first daughter was also a first
child, the gender wage gap decreased by roughly 2.8 percent." If a second
daughter was born to a male CEO, women's wages were not significantly affected.
"Thus, our results suggest that the first daughter 'flips a switch' in the mind
of a male CEO, causing him to attend more to equality in gender-related wage
policies," they write. David Gaddis Ross, co-author of the
study and an assistant professor at Columbia's Business School, said he would
love to do a similar study in the United States, but there is no way the data
would be available. "Getting this information in the United States would be
wildly difficult, especially on the family structure of the CEOs," he said. The
Denmark data did not reveal names of individuals or companies, but each employee
of every company in the country is attached to a code that researchers could use
to find gender, number of children, salary, and other information such as home
address and phone number. The study is not the first to examine
how having a daughter affects men's decision-making. Ebonya Washington wrote in
a study published in the American Economic Review in 2008 that U.S. legislators
were more likely to vote more liberally on women's reproductive issues if they
had daughters. Another study found that parents with daughters were more likely
to adopt feminist views on gender equality.
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According to the study, if the first child of the CEO was a daughter,
the decrease of the gender wage gap was ______.