Glass ceilings sticky floors, and satisfaction: rewards and remuneration

Jewell, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4413-6618, Park, S. and Crociata, A. (2022) Glass ceilings sticky floors, and satisfaction: rewards and remuneration. In: Brook, S., Comunian, R., Corcoran, J., Faggian, A., Jewell, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4413-6618 and Webb, J. (eds.) Gender and the creative labour market: graduates in Australia and the UK. Palgrave Macmillan Cham. ISBN 9783031050664 doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-05067-1_3

Abstract/Summary

This chapter looks at the rewards of creative careers and focuses on both pecuniary and non-pecuniary rewards: salary and career satisfaction. Creative careers, on average, offer lower salaries and are not compensated in the form of higher career satisfaction. In the short term there is a gender pay gap which persists for the UK but in Australia women catch up over the medium term. In the UK there is evidence of a gender glass ceiling in creative careers, with men having greater pay growth, in and outside of creative careers; whilst in Australia there is evidence of a sticky floor in creative careers. There are no general gender differences in career satisfaction and no evidence creative graduates trade off lower returns for higher career satisfaction.

Item Type	Book or Report Section
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/108534
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/978-3-031-05067-1_3
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Politics, Economics and International Relations > Economics
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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