What pay gap? Young women in New York earn more than male peers: study

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2015-02-11 04:26

Article here. Excerpt:

'You go, girls!

Young women in New York have closed the pay gap and actually earn more money than their male peers, a new study shows.

Female millennials bring in $1.02 for every $1 earned by young men in New York, according to new number-crunching by the Institute for Women's Policy Research.

The shattered glass ceiling is likely connected to New York women's high education rate, with 47% of 25- to 34-year-old women in the state holding a bachelor's degree or better, compared to just 38% of men.

"Things are changing," says study director Ariane Hegewisch. "You can see the impact of young women going to college and developing themselves. They are being given opportunities."'

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... the "wage gap" is a myth to begin with. It has been repeatedly shown that it is women's collective personal choices about what they want to pursue in life (and the fact that men are subsidizing them in doing so) that accounts for the so-called "gap". Because one has no declarable income nor draws a salary reportable by an employer does not mean she is not getting the benefit of someone else's; likewise if she can and wants only to work part-time while enjoying a lifestyle standard better than what that part-time income would buy her because she has a husband/bf/father willing to subsidize her, in essence, for the rest, by no means is she suffering materially or in terms of discrimination.

Hell, wish I could get someone to subsidize me so I could work part- instead of full-time!

But feminists want you to forget these inconvenient truths. Others may, but MRAs won't.

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Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2015-02-12 05:09

Let's say that 40 years ago more men than women obtained college degrees. As a result, of those degrees, these men earned more than women without degrees. Even now, some of these men are reaching or experiencing the prime of their careers, the result of 40 years of hard work.

Today, more women than men are obtaining college degrees. Already, the effect is apparently showing up in New York. As more time passes and more women get degrees, women's salaries will begin to meet or exceed the salaries of men without college degrees.

The point is, there's a time gap between receiving a degree and receiving a salary. Yet feminists consistently argue that we should do nothing about fewer men receiving degrees because men make more money than women--and point to the so-called pay gap. They fail to consider that the men earning more money typically earned a degree years ago--but that degree is bearing fruit only now. If fewer men get degrees now, fewer men in the future will earn the extra money a degree usually brings with it. In other words, the "pay gap" will likely narrow as more women than men earn degrees.

Or perhaps it won't. A lot of women with degrees fail to use them or eventually take time off to have a family. Feminists typically see everything as something "done to" women, not as something women choose to do. As a result, they fail to see how a woman's choice affects her income. Further, as Matt points out, women's choices are often subsidized by men. A woman can afford to take time off or work less because her husband subsidizes her choice. But if the man doesn't earn enough to allow her to do that, she won't have that choice. Her income might go up and the "pay gap" might narrow, but she'll have fewer choices in her life.

Which life is better? Being obligated to work or choosing to work or not work? I'd much prefer to be able to choose to work or not work. But if men's salaries start falling, a woman's choice to work or not work will start disappearing.

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Submitted by el cid on Thu, 2015-02-12 15:04