The role of gender in job promotions (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, Dec. 1999

The role of gender in job promotions

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Research fellow in the National Centre for Development Studies and the Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Yvonne Dunlop
Ph.D. student in the Economics Program.

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicate that most young men and women are promoted in their jobs on the basis of performance; although a gender gap in the rate of promotion does exist, the gap was smaller in 1996 than in 1990.

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