Using Indian employment data obtained from the National Sample Survey, 2011−12, we investigate whether, in urban India, there is a wage gap between men and women workers with similar technical education (degrees or diplomas) at various points on the wage distributions. Our descriptive analysis shows that women in urban India are lagging behind men in obtaining technical education. Attainment of technical education raises the probability of labour force participation of both men and women compared to those who don’t have such education. The magnitude of this effect is strongly pronounced among women than men. However, the unemployment rate among technically educated women is higher than their male counterparts. With regard to our central objective, the findings from the Re-centered Influence Function decomposition show that women get lower wages than men. Our sub-sample-wise and state-wise analyses concur with this finding. Furthermore, we find that women workers with technical diplomas face a sticky floor effect, while women with technical degrees face both sticky floor and glass ceiling effects. Lower attachment to the labour market, marriage and presence of children in the family are the key factors explaining women’s lower labour market rewards than men. This observation is true across the wage distributions of diploma and degree holders in urban India. We emphasize on continued attention with respect to anti-discrimination labour market policies, public provision of day-care services, and compulsory crèche facilities at workplaces to minimize the gender wage gap. Additionally, the formulation of gender sensitization committees and setting up of behavioural standards at workplaces are called for tobreak the glass ceiling among the technical degree holders.

使用从2011-12年国家样本调查获得的印度就业数据，我们调查在印度城市中，在工资分配的各个点上，接受过类似技术教育（学位或文凭）的男女工人之间是否存在工资差距。我们的描述性分析表明，印度城市地区的女性在接受技术教育方面落后于男性。与未接受过技术教育的人相比，接受技术教育会增加男女参与劳动力的可能性。在女性中，这种影响的程度比男性明显。但是，受过技术教育的妇女的失业率高于男性。关于我们的中心目标，重新集中影响函数分解的结果表明，女性的工资低于男性。我们在子样本和状态下的分析与该发现一致。此外，我们发现拥有技术文凭的女工面临着粘性地板效应，而拥有技术学位的女工面临着粘性地板效应和玻璃天花板效应。劳动力市场依恋度较低，婚姻和家庭中子女的存在是导致女性劳动力市场报酬低于男性的关键因素。在印度城市文凭和学位持有者的工资分布中，这种观察是正确的。我们强调继续关注反歧视劳动力市场政策，公共提供日托服务以及工作场所的强制性托儿所，以最大程度地减少性别工资差距。另外，