Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2012-11-05 16:54

Article here. Excerpt:

'If you believe women suffer systemic wage discrimination, read the new American Association of University Women (AAUW) study Graduating to a Pay Gap. Bypass the verbal sleights of hand and take a hard look at the numbers. Women are close to achieving the goal of equal pay for equal work. They may be there already.

How many times have you heard that, for the same work, women receive 77 cents for every dollar a man earns? This alleged unfairness is the basis for the annual Equal Pay Day observed each year about mid-April to symbolize how far into the current year women have to work to catch up with men's earnings from the previous year. If the AAUW is right, Equal Pay Day will now have to be moved to early January.

The AAUW has now joined ranks with serious economists who find that when you control for relevant differences between men and women (occupations, college majors, length of time in workplace) the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing. The 23-cent gap is simply the average difference between the earnings of men and women employed "full time." What is important is the "adjusted" wage gap-the figure that controls for all the relevant variables. That is what the new AAUW study explores.'

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I'm a tax consultant making income my professional speciality.

I analysed Australian 2008 taxation and work force data with an eye to sex. The raw numbers yielded a gap of about twelve percent for those categorised as full time workers. Merely adjusting for the actual hours worked narrowed that gap to 1.2% Gross incomes will always show a gap between the sexes because of the choices made available to women.

When confronted with wage gap complainants I put three things to them.

They must be able to define what their quoted statistics actually represent. Almost invariably they don't know.

Secondly I point to the hourly comparisons which I am able to define because I have done the work.

Lastly I ask how they reconcile their claimed wages gap with womens' control of eighty percent of discretionary spending across the western world. I would have thought privilege lay in being able to spend the filthy lucre rather than being the poor sod who must work to earn it.

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Submitted by gwallan on Tue, 2012-11-06 04:19

So it seems that Equal Pay Day should be January 19th in the US and January 4th in Australia. Or maybe even earlier in both places.

This is either a sign of great progress for women or a sign of a victory of reality over gender politics.

All the years of this nonsense just reinforced the stereotype that women are incompetent at math.

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Submitted by chuck on Wed, 2012-11-07 02:03