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Originally Posted by Illuminaughty
Gender wage gap is a persisting myth that won't go away. For example if we were both carpenters making $30 an hour, say I worked 60 hours a week and you worked 40 hours a week, who earns more? Obviously me because I worked more hours and it only seems fair that I should earn more. Learn the difference between wages and earnings. Men work more that's why they earn more, it's pretty simple really. Again, if you could pay a woman less money to do the same job as a man, there would be many civil discrimination suits, and rightfully so. This isn't the case, no economist takes this seriously, it's just a politically motivated myth that won't die.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagn.../#4b9ad7764766
That link should paint a much clearer picture for you, it even deals with the links you posted. |
Somehow, your source's following unsupported blanket statement is not at all persuasive:
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Using the statistic that women make 78 cents on the dollar as evidence of rampant discrimination has been debunked over and over again.
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Certainly, less the persuasive (to me anyway) than the following:
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However, numerous studies indicate that variables such as hours worked account for only part of the gender pay gap and that the pay gap shrinks but does not disappear after controlling for all human capital variables known to affect pay.[31][32][34][37][40] Moreover, Gary Becker argues that the traditional division of labor in the family disadvantages women in the labor market as women devote substantially more time and effort to housework and have less time and effort available for performing market work.[51] The OECD (2002) found that women work fewer hours because in the present circumstances the "responsibilities for child-rearing and other unpaid household work are still unequally shared among partners."[52]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender...s#Hours_worked