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> they didn't control for hours worked Are the programmers in question being paid by the hour? Does programmer pay within each gender correlate closely to hour
by T-R 10y ago
> they didn't control for hours worked
Are the programmers in question being paid by the hour? Does programmer pay within each gender correlate closely to hours worked?
- gozur88 10y agoYou don't think people who are willing to work longer hours end up getting paid more? Are people who work more than forty hours each week doing it for nothing?
- sheepmullet 10y agoI wouldn't know. It seems reasonable. All the academic studies I have seen either adjust for it explicitly or put forward a strong case on why it isn't being included.
- T-R 10y agoIt's certainly reasonable for a studies across fields with hourly pay or, e.g., including both part-time and full-time (such as the BLS survey cited by the Forbes article), but I'm not sure we can make that assumption for software development - programmer productivity in a given time period is, on its own, somewhat mythically considered to vary by orders of magnitude.
- sheepmullet 10y agoFair point. I'd argue it's a more logical and likely explanation than sexism though.
- wanderer2323 10y agoAnecdotal evidence matches this up pretty closely. Better programmers tend to work more, it's just a fact of life.