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I am sure we all are very aware that the wage gap for women is a myth. the gap in wages has nothing to do with bias against women but bias against families in the workplace. Men and women are both decriminated against equally. For women the punishment is in the workplace because society requires them to put the family before work. The punishment men receive is the lack of family involment because of societial expectations that the male contribution to family is work. (yes there are many other problems but this is just the basics)
I seriously doubt they will publish the data and methods of the research since the simplistic set up would indicate that they failed to take enough confounds into account.
Tony H
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I would think that if there has been an increase in the amount of women managers in the last five years, and a minimal increase of men as managers in the last five years, and men outnumber the amount women as managers, then it is possible that these men have had their jobs as managers longer. If that is the case, then it is possible that the statisics is based on a group of level entry workers (women) to a group of senior workers (men). If that is the case then naturaly the group with the largest amount of senior workers would be making the greatest amount of money.
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by Anonymous User on Sunday January 27, @10:27AM EST (#3)
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As I was mentioning in another post, there was a segment on Paula Zahn's show Friday morning where two Congressmen, one woman and one man, both Democrats, paraded this study out in front of the audience. Both of them decried this state of affairs and both agreed that some legislation was in order (could that be pay equity?). In fact, the man even suggested that the ERA might be the right solution. To quote B.A. Baracus: "Pity the fool..."
It would appear that the study failed to consider two things:
1) How many women CHOSE to leave the job market or step down from management because of robust economic times experienced by their husbands?
2) The robust times of the 1995-2000 period were most significantly enjoyed by the technology sector, a sector predominated, right or wrong, by men. How does this effect the growth in management positions?
Frank H
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Interesting points, all.
I was thinking about the representative industries- many of them tend to be ones where men have had more power longer. So they may be comparing upstarts to pros.
Also, I think single professionals earn less than married ones with kids...
"Female men's activist" is not an oxymoron.
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