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Major Nikon

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1. A better question is how much of the gender wage gap one thinks is due to discrimination

Fri Dec 27, 2013, 02:35 PM

Dec 2013

The BLS web site lists the current weekly earnings for women at $574 vs $712 for men which is a 19.4% gap.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htm

Some feminists believe all of this gap is due to discrimination which is completely ridiculous. Also from the BLS web site, among full time workers, men work almost an hour more per day than women.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/jun/wk4/art04.htm

So if men are working about 10% more hours than women, right away you can account for about half the pay gap. Most competent studies on the subject account for other factors that whittle any portion of the pay gap which might be due to discrimination down to a statistically negligible amount. If you factor out non-wage considerations like the preference for higher fringe benefits and lower risk of physical injury, the portion of the gap which may be due to discrimination almost certainly gets even smaller.

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2524351?uid=3739920&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21103170306031

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A question about the gender wage gap. (X post from GD) [View all] rrneck Dec 2013 OP

A better question is how much of the gender wage gap one thinks is due to discrimination Major Nikon Dec 2013 #1

Discrimination may be rooted in something more fundamental rrneck Dec 2013 #2

I'm just pointing out what part of the gap might be due to discrimination Major Nikon Dec 2013 #3

I suspect that rrneck Dec 2013 #4

Most of the gap is the result of choice. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2013 #5

There's choices and then there's choices. rrneck Dec 2013 #6

You make it sound like that there's no reason that some careers don't pay much. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2013 #9

Same here. rrneck Dec 2013 #11

Doublethink Major Nikon Dec 2013 #7

In general, couples behave as a team. lumberjack_jeff Dec 2013 #8

Gender equal opportunity does not necessarily mean equal outcomes Major Nikon Dec 2013 #10