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ELMSLIE: That's a hard thing to answer because discrimination can come from so many different sources. HANSEN: And why do the employers discriminate? They're traditionally management or blue collar jobs.
ELMSLIE: The bulk of the evidence consistent with discrimination is in more male-oriented, male-dominated jobs. HANSEN: And where does the discrimination occur in the labor market? What kind of jobs are we talking about? But if we compare gay males to heterosexual males who are coupled but are not married, the differential turns out to be around 9 percent, which is still fairly significant. If you just look at a wage differential between married men and homosexual men, it's fairly sizeable. ELMSLIE: It's difficult to say directly what it is because there's a strong marriage effect. HANSEN: How significant then is the pay differential between gay men and straight men? Professor BRUCE ELMSLIE (Economics, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire): Thank you very much. In the Journal of Labor Research, Bruce Elmslie is the co-author of the article "Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Discrimination." He's a professor at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics, which released the study. It also found that lesbians do not experience similar discrimination in the labor market.
The reason is discrimination by employers.
A new study reveals what many gay men may already know: that they make less money than straight men.