Parenthood affected men and women in vividly different ways.
Procreation and childbirth do as well. It’s almost as if the sexes were designed for different purposes.
You know, maybe women are just different from men in their goals and ambitions. Why do we have to assume it is some kind of discrimination?
This seems unlikely to me. In every major, women have higher grades than men? Engineering? Mathematics? This would refute any number of studies that show, in general, better performance of men in math and fields with heavy dependance on spatial relationships.
Hmmmm, I wonder if a study conducted by the Cato Institute, or the Heritage Foundation, using the same exact data would have reached the same conclusions. It seemed to me as I read the article that even though the study found significant other factors that contributed to the "gap" it discounted those factors and concluded that the data gives conclusive proof of discrimination.
I’m an employer. Multiple companies in multiple states nationwide.
I’ve never once even considered a lower pay scale for women, and most of the staff in the companies are in fact female, as I sit and think about this.
I’ve never seen a situation where a woman isn’t paid the same money for the same job as a male, I only read about it in articles like this.
Which causes me to wonder if its real, or just PC coming out.
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Same tired old arguments. This can’t be true, otherwise there would be no men in the workplace. My old company managers would sell their own children to shave 1/10th of a percent off the bottom line....imagine what they’d do to save 10-30%!
Given that fact, the law of supply-and-demand explains the income gap between male and female college graduates; the scarcer resource commands a higher price.
Operative word is “earn”. In three different factories, it’s almost always been men who half-kill themselves scrounging for all the overtime they can get, and it’s been men who volunteer for the special installation and start-up projects with hard deadlines. Many of my coworkers, through the years, have been warned that they were bumping up against internal “maximum work hours allowed” rules, and ordered to take a day off. None of those so warned were female.
One of the reasons I joined the Navy was to be paid the same as men. And I was. Women tend to choose fields where the pay is lower and they spend less time in the workforce due to childrearing. These are CHOICES women make. There is no conspiracy to pay women less. Once again, the liberals are pointing out a “problem” which doesn’t exist.
No bias here....
“”If a woman and a man make the same choices, will they receive the same pay?” the study asked. “The answer is no.”
Is the woman’s “output” the same as a man?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
“Among factors found to make a difference in pay, the choice of fields of concentration in college were significant...”
No $hit. What a Brainiac. Who woulda thunk it?
Hmmmmm.
“Female students tended to study areas with lower pay.”
Wow.... no wonder why they earn less...
Hmmmmmmmm.
“Parenthood affected men and women in vividly different ways. The study showed mothers more likely than fathers, or other women, to work part time or take leaves.”
A big honkin’ Mr Mom no kidding!!!
hmm.
“If a woman and a man make the same choices, will they receive the same pay?” the study asked. “The answer is no.”
Well, no where in this article do they provide actual facts that say so.
I sure hope my tax dollars were not used to fund this useless “study”.
Specifically, about one-quarter of the pay gap is attributable to gender...among factors found to make a difference in pay, the choice of fields of concentration in college were significant, the study found. Female students tended to study areas with lower pay, such as education, health and psychology, while male students dominated higher-paying fields such as engineering, mathematics and physical sciences, it said...
I remember during the early '70s when feminists were saying there was no difference in the performance between men and women, and no justification for what they termed discrimination. Pig that I was, I predicted that little time would pass before women started complaining about those jobs.
The difference between men and women in the workplace? This is a generalization, so not universally true...men expect to adjust their lives and expectations to the workplace. Feminists (and many women) expect the workplace to adjust to their expectations.
If this is truly gender based bias, and I have seen ugly cases of it BTW, this should be present in the data as well.
b.s.
warren farrell in “the myth of male power” demonstrated years ago that
men generally work MORE hours,
thus, getting the higher paid jobs.
women generally take jobs close to home and school,
and women work FEWER hours,
thereby lowering their pay.
farrell was v.p. of n.o.w. until he published a book showing up their lies.
also, see: warren farrell “why men earn more, father and child reunion ...”