Partisanship and the gender pay gap in local government

Alonso, Jose Manuel and Andrews, Rhys ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1904-9819 2025. Partisanship and the gender pay gap in local government. Governance 38 (4) , e70050. 10.1111/gove.70050

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Abstract

Partisanship may play a part in shaping gender equality within public organizations, especially in local governments, which are often subject to direct political control. Using a Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design, we examine the influence of partisanship on gender equality within government by analyzing whether right‐wing party control is related to the gender pay gap among all employees in English local governments. We also investigate whether it is related to gender representation among the senior managers in those governments. Our RD estimates reveal that right‐wing controlled local governments have a larger gender pay gap and fewer women in senior management than in governments controlled by other political parties.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0952-1895
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 August 2025
Date of Acceptance:	11 August 2025
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2025 08:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/180707

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