A new study shows women earn 99 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Are you happy the wage gap is now almost equal in 2023?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

This is nothing new, really. The only thing that has changed is the organizations who do these studies are finally starting to factor in all the variables that cause what they refer to as the "uncontrolled gender pay gap". The "controlled gender pay gap" is still 1%, but that just means they haven't quite figured out how to control for all of the variables causing it. But they will eventually figure that out too, and as with everything else, it will come down to the different life choices men and women make.

It's interesting how feminists complain that women do more of the domestic and caregiver duties, but the other side of that coin is that their husbands are doing more of the provider duties by working longer hours, doing more difficult jobs, working more overtime and weekend shifts to bring home a better income for their families.

This was a telling study done by a couple of female Harvard economists who concluded the difference in men's a women's earnings came down to one thing... their different choices.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/bolotnyy/files/be_gendergap.pdf

Here's the abstract:

"Even in a unionized environment where work tasks are similar, hourly wages are identical, and tenure dictates promotions, female workers earn $0.89 on the male-worker dollar (weekly earnings). We use confidential administrative data on bus and train operators from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to show that the weekly earnings gap can be explained by the workplace choices that women and men make. Women value time away from work and flexibility more than men, taking more unpaid time off using the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and working fewer overtime hours than men. When overtime hours are scheduled three months in advance, men and women work a similar number of hours; but when those hours are offered at the last minute, men work nearly twice as many. When selecting work schedules, women try to avoid weekend, holiday, and split shifts more than men. To avoid unfavorable work times, women prioritize their schedules over route safety and select routes with a higher probability of accidents. Women are less likely than men to game the scheduling system by trading off work hours at regular wages for overtime hours at premium wages."

The only reason we still talk about the gender pay gap is that it's the last hill feminists have to die on, so they can't let it dies because it would mean the death of feminism.

worldscolide · Accepted Answer

It was never an issue. I will quote christina hoff sommers..

No matter how many times this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists, it always comes back. The bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.

Wage gap activists say women with identical backgrounds and jobs as men still earn less. But they always fail to take into account critical variables. Activist groups like the National Organization for Women have a fallback position: that women’s education and career choices are not truly free—they are driven by powerful sexist stereotypes. In this view, women’s tendency to retreat from the workplace to raise children or to enter fields like early childhood education and psychology, rather than better paying professions like petroleum engineering, is evidence of continued social coercion. Here is the problem: American women are among the best informed and most self-determining human beings in the world. To say that they are manipulated into their life choices by forces beyond their control is divorced from reality and demeaning, to boot.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/3F0ekk3jV6k0Ma84QUKySg/5ba1742abef606e73c42d2867e64994f/sommers-there_is_no_gender_wage_gap-transcript.pdf

SusanColleen · Accepted Answer

The “wage gap” is zero, when you take all factors into consideration. Men do the more dangerous jobs. Men work longer hours, Men don’t take leaves to have babies. Men rarely call off sick. Men are competitive for promotion.

if a woman is willing to forego bearing children, work 12 hour days, hang off the side of a bridge, she will absolutely make the same pay as her male colleagues

For whatever reason, women tend to choose careers which pay lower salaries. The gender pay gap was debunked long ago, except in the minds of the feminist left

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

Milkmaid calculations don't really matter if average life quality and financial security decreases.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Coach, look at this face. If it looks like I care. . . it's an optical illusion!

cth96190 · Answer

Feminists appear to be ignorant of JFK’s equal pay legislation of 1963.
Yes, equal pay has been lae in the USA for 60 years, but if you ask Feminists what they know about the legislation few of them will have heard of it.
The Feminist pay gap talking point is, like most things spruiked by Communists (the creators and manipulators of Feminism), a lie.
The Feminist argument is based upon misrepresentation of the statistics and the deliberate omission of important factors. The Feminist case is a calculated lie.
Those omitted factors include that women tend to chose occupations that are at the lower end of the pay scale; tend to choose to work fewer hours; and take years off to have children.
I have found that most Feminists lack the cognitive capacity to understand statistics and few think rationally enough to realise that they are being lied to by the Communists who are the leaders of Feminism.

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

No... they may earn more money for themselves now, but I bet they still don't earn more money for the business.

I saw this coming though. Look at what happened with a college education. Now they outnumber men in college and with degrees. Women now out-cheat men from what I've been hearing. The wage gap will eventually be in a reverse situation and they still won't be happy... I'd bet my left nutt on that.

lightbulb27 · Answer

If they are being paid for their abilities and work it's fine. Some women I know made more than males. Some probably make less.

A lot of the gap is ability to negotiate. I doubt the statistics because at the executive level, I doubt they do make that much... and execs are over compensated...

Bricealan · Answer

Coach, I want a woman to make the same more as I or even more if she does the SAME job, and/or does it better or more efficiently than I. I have worked in manufacturing environments with women that were, in fact better than some men, myself included.

It's just a fact of life, not to be denied by any reasonable person.

exitseven · Answer

the problem is that women do not earn more. Men are earning less.

peedy · Answer

There really isn't any wage gap women will earn just as much as a man for the same job
The so called gap is figured out by adding everyone's together and looking at the different but the problem is that men go for higher paying jobs doctor engineer vs women that will nurses and secretarys, plus men work more overtime compared to women who like to go home to their families after work
The so called wage gap is just other thing that the powers that be put out there a promote to divide keep us to busy fighting one another that we don't see what the real enemy is doing

Leopard23 · Answer

Did anyone work out the amount of work they do by comparison?

Anonymous · Answer

I’m sorry but I have to say this as a guy who has tried to advocate for YEARSSS that women get paid better, women have good positions, women have authority that has really bit me in the ass. There are women who abuse their power and status and pull out the IM A FEMALE CARD and whine like a self entitled Karen. Men are the ones doing the shitty jobs, men are the ones helping create the infrastructure such as roads, highways and buildings, men sadly commit suicide wayy more, the legal system is against men for marriages which is why guys/men are turned off by women now.

So if women don’t care about males, why would I care now? So many girls these days use OnlyFans to make money. I blame guys and men who act like desperate simps. Guys NEED TO STOP PAYING WOMEN for sexual services for crap like OnlyFans. Women today act like they are some entrepreneur for showing her tits for the world to see and making money on OnlyFans, give me a break, that shit will one day haunt her.

Anonymous · Answer

The gender wage gap has already been debunked. What studies fail to mention about the wage gap, it's based on a average of what men make vs the average of what women make which is very misleading. Men are more likely to seek higher paying jobs, work overtime and are more willing to ask for raises, which skews the numbers in men's favor. If you really think about it, if the wage gab really existed, why don't companies higher only women to take advantage of smaller salaries?

Guffrus · Answer

It's fine until you realise, as Chris Rock says in his Outragous show; that every dollar earned by a man is spent on women.

molonski2 · Answer

99c , is not bad , I dont think that would be true worldwide , from memory Australia is about 80c.

Lliam · Answer

Equal pay for equal work is only right. It's a good thing.

Anonymous · Answer

It's a crock as always

I remember here in the UK they sample company payrolls and found every airline was a big offender you know the ones were the women were mostly cleaners, ticket checkers and stewards and the men were in ATC, captains or pilots for the most part

Anonymous · Answer

Why would I be happy? It doesn't increase my wealth any? And women while almost equal are either going to say they deserved it anyhow so why would they be happy. Or they're just going to b**** about that penny.😆😆😆

One things for sure it isn't going to make women more generous. Or less expecting of men.

So while it's a good thing. No, I really don't care. 😆😆😆

CheeseMonster · Answer

Cool! I will hopefully be on the other side in a few months, but that doesn't mean I don't think it should be fixed still. It is still definitely a problem. But getting better. Which is good.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

As far as I can tell, it's NEVER been UNEQUAL, except in the porn industry! The girls just lay there, the men do all the work and the girls get most of the cash!!

JSmuve · Answer

I heard a quote a while back that made me think. If a company can pay women less than what they pay men, then where's the financial incentive to hire men? Just hire a shit-ton of women and save a bunch of money.

Adam1978 · Answer

Irrelevant since women are still very bad at handling money.

CateM · Answer

Now let's just bring that pay gap up just one more cent for every dollar a man makes

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