Penner, Andrew M.Melzer, Silvia MajaTufail, Zaibu2023-05-172023-05-172023Penner AM, Petersen T, Hermansen AS, Rainey A, Boza I, Elvira MM, et al. Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries. Nat Hum Behav. 2023;7(2):184-9. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z2397-3374http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56851Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast majority of the pay gap. Data that can identify women and men who do the same work for the same employer are rare, and research informing this crucial aspect of gender differences in pay is several decades old and from a limited number of countries. Here, using recent linked employer–employee data from 15 countries, we show that the processes sorting people into different jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay differences than was previously believed and that within-job pay differences remain consequential.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2022, corrected publication 2023. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01470-zSocial policySociologyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess