In the original article, there was a mistake in the legend for Figure 4. The second wage range is Between 10,000 € and 25,000 €, so the third is Over 25,000 €. The same error affects the text describing the figure. The correct legend appears below and a correction has been made to the The Careers of APs: A General Overview section, paragraph 10:
Figure 4.
Wage range and distribution by age and gender (Source: our survey).
“Figure 4 shows the distribution of wage ranges by sex and age. In all the age groups, the number of workers earning up to € 10,00013 is greater among women than men, whereas in all the age groups, the male rate of APs with a wage higher than € 25,000 per year is almost double the female rate. The difference by gender is even greater among younger APs earning more than € 25,000 per year, with an incidence of 19.5% for men and 7.7% for women. Furthermore, beyond having lower wages, female APs also have a more fragmented work experience. Indeed, if on average, the majority of APs who declare extra-academic work contracts are either self-employed (30.6%) or permanent employees, both categories are higher among men (34.1 and 23.2%) than among women (26.2 and 20.7%). By contrast, more women than men carry out informal work (20.1% vs. 17.4%), have fixed-term employment contracts (9% vs. 6.1%), or mixed forms of semi-employed contracts (24.1% vs. 18.8%).”
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
Footnotes
13We considered here all the jobs carried out by the respondents, both within and outside academia.