NEW YORK, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- It's been known that women make less than men in similar circumstances but a national study found men who supervise women also earn less.
"Even when fewer than half the people supervised were female, managers made $1,000 or $2,000 less a year than if they led an all-male group," said Cheri Ostroff,a professor of psychology and education at Columbia University Teachers College in New York.
Working with Leanne Atwater at Arizona State University West, Ostroff studied more than 2,100 managers representing 512 companies from 1991 to 2000.
"Your worst-case scenario is your peers are female, your supervisor is female, and most of your subordinates are female," Ostroff told the Dallas Morning News. "Then you're really going to get hit -- perhaps for $20,000 a year or more."
The study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, said the wage gap did not appear to be performance based because the women got higher performance scores than the men did.
