Corporate Social Responsibility and Income Inequality from the Gender Perspective

Despite recent legislative progress, equality between men and women remains a challenge of major importance. From the hospital perspective, gender equality is a key element within corporate social responsibility policy. The aim of this study is to quantify the gender differences among professionals of the University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves (UHVN) in terms of relative presence and income. This is a descriptive study carried out in the UHVN with the data offered by the analytical accounting system for 2010. From a theoretical point of view, we analyze the gender wage gap assuming that the labor market is limited to employment generated by the UHVN. This hypothesis could identify wage differences in the environment of a public health organization where the salaries of men and women are identical for performing the same job. The Index of Relative Presence of Men and Women in the HUVN reaches 1.35. The wage income curve obtained by men and women present different profiles. The profile for males shows two peaks at the beginning and end of their working lives. The profile for women's wage income is much more stable throughout their working lives. In general, the average wages for women are 24% lower than those of men. The greatest differences were in the group of doctors. The salaries of men outnumber women in all age brackets. So gender analysis of professionals in the HUVN confirms the existence of gender differences in the relative participation of women and in their wage income.