Table 1.
Descriptive statistics by respondent sex
| Overall | Male | Female | Difference | |||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean diff. | SE | |
| Annual salary, $ | 63,709 | 21,370 | 65,358 | 21,899 | 60,631 | 20,038 | 4,728** | $1,888 |
| Engineering self-efficacy | 2.45 | 0.81 | 2.60 | 0.80 | 2.17 | 0.76 | 0.43*** | 0.07 |
| Importance of workplace culture | 2.67 | 0.97 | 2.52 | 0.99 | 2.95 | 0.85 | −0.44*** | 0.08 |
| Importance of compensation | 2.77 | 0.92 | 2.81 | 0.94 | 2.70 | 0.87 | 0.11 | 0.08 |
| Observations | 559 | 364 | 195 | 559 | ||||
**P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001. Difference values are calculated with more significant digits than what is shown above, and statistics are from two-sample t tests.