The Gender Pay Gap Is The Result Of Being A Parent, Not Discrimination

Article here. Excerpt:

'That women, on average, earn less than men is true. That this is the result of discrimination seems not to be true. Rather, it appears to be down to the different different reactions of men and women to becoming a parent. Which, given that being a mammalian and viviparous species is pretty much central to the experience of being human means that the gender pay gap just might be one of those things not amenable to having a solution.

This is not to say that there aren’t examples out there of what economists do call “taste” discrimination. Nor that there weren’t very obvious, even extreme, more general examples of such discrimination surrounding women in the labor market in the past. But as far as we can work out now, about what is happening today, there’s just not much, if any, of the difference in average income between men and women that can be ascribed to such discrimination.'