Few women apply for highpaying jobs via Trade Me

Women aren’t putting their hands up for New Zealand’s highest-paying jobs. Trade Me Jobs analysed its 71,000 vacancies and determined that most of the applicants for those offering pay of $100,000 or more were men. Just

37 per cent of those applications were from female candidates. But women made up more than half the applicants for jobs in the $40,000 to $60,000 salary band. Trade Me Jobs head Jeremy Wade said there had been little movement in the gender differences for three years. ‘‘[One theory] is that men are more likely to apply for a role even if they only meet 50 per cent of the criteria in the job description, while women typically want to be sure they can meet all the requirements.’’ Almost three-quarters of IT applications were from men, while 63 per cent of executive and general management applications were from men. Science and technology applications were evenly split between men and women. Women dominated applications in office and administration, and education, at 72 per cent of applications in both sectors.