People want to be treated fairly. I think it’s fair to say that women would appreciate being paid the same amount for the same type and quality of work as men. Everyone will always want to make more and to better themselves, but no one will be satisfied if they are being compensated less than someone else doing the same work.
Question:
It is fair for a person with more experience to make more money than someone with less. But the pay gap cannot be explained entirely by different years in the work force, because the gap in pay between men and women exists even one year out of college.
Some employers actually do prefer to hire women. I don’t know about the Western, first world but in some parts of the third world they do.
Yeah… That is totally what I spend my time doing at work. Seducing the manager.
How do you know they are making less? I have never seen any evidence to back up the claim that for every dollar a man makes, a woman makes only 70 cents.
Yup.
Two of my best engineers were women … and Vietnamese at that! I always made sure they got better than average bonuses. My worst were a few Caucasian males.
Oh my goodness, women and Vietnamese?? How shocking that engineers could be either.
I thought so. That is not evidence because it doesn’t account for any factors influencing the numbers. “The ‘77 percent’ statistical fraud on gender pay gap issue”
Did you read the report?
Where in the equations on pg. 5 does it do that?
The page 5 formula is the complete pay gap, demonstrating a 22% difference in pay. The rest of the report explores the factors that contribute to this, including a 7% unexplained difference that cannot be attributed to differences in hours working or education. It’s not original research; they cite their sources if you’d like to look at the raw data.
It doesn’t demonstrate anything but the liberal skill in fooling the gullible with a phony statistical “analysis”. It lumps together such widely spread occupations as circus lion trainers, bank tellers, motor bike policemen, firefighters, baby sitters, and soldiers of fortune.
I follow you. It seems that whenever I hear the cries of pay injustice, I can’t help but feel these people are looking for some unionization rationale. It only makes sense; if one feels he can’t negotiate successfully on his/her own, then he’d want to take his chances with an agent or a union.
Sigh. Yes, that is why I’m not claiming there is an actual 22% pay discrimination between men and women, because some of that effect can be explained by job choice, with more men choosing jobs like engineering and more women going in to education and nursing. Even controlling for job sector, there is still a wage gap.