Gender earnings gap and glass ceiling at Spanish universities

This study aims at analyzing the gender gap in salaries observed in Spanish public universities. It focuses on the glass ceiling problem and quantifies its importance in the gender earnings gap. This article shows that most of the gender earnings gap observed among the faculty of the University of Murcia is due to a glass ceiling problem in accessing the rank of Full Professor, and it includes a measure of research productivity in the analysis. Despite increases in the number of women promoted to the level of Full Professor has increased in recent years, women still comprise less than 30% of the total faculty at this academic rank. The second most important variable that explains most of the earnings gap is research productivity.

本研究旨在剖析西班牙公立高校中的薪资性别差距问题，聚焦玻璃天花板（glass ceiling）现象，并量化其对性别收入差距的贡献程度。本文发现，穆尔西亚大学教职员工群体中绝大多数的性别收入差距，源于晋升正教授职称过程中存在的玻璃天花板问题，且本研究在分析中纳入了科研产出水平的衡量指标。尽管近年来晋升为正教授的女性教职员工数量有所增长，但该职称的全体教职员工中女性占比仍不足30%。解释收入差距的第二大关键变量为科研产出水平。