New study finds the gender earnings gap could be halved if we reined in the long hours often worked by men

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2025-08-12 17:34

Article here. Excerpt:

'There are lots of reasons why people work extra hours. In some jobs, it’s the only way to cover the workload. In others, the pay is poor, so people need to work extra time. And in others still, working back late or on weekends is encouraged and rewarded, explicitly and implicitly.

Those employees who do the extra hours, willingly and without complaint, are seen as hungry and ambitious. A view expressed in some workplaces is simply “that’s what everyone does”.

But what if we discovered that people – at least in heterosexual couple households – can only work long hours at their partner’s expense? Would it still be OK for workplaces to expect people to work longer than our standard full time week, and incentivise them for doing so?'

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Men work longer hours largely b/c employers expect/demand it of them. Yet somehow, WOMEN are the "victims", "paying for" men having to work MORE than them? The entire wage gap myth has been debunked numerous times yet feminists insist upon acting like it's a real thing.

Only among feminists is it that when someone else has to work longer amounts of time, they are the victims. Perennial victimhood.

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Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2025-08-13 00:24

The article automatically assumes that because men work more for pay, they work less in the household and do less social support (like caring for aged parents).
But this assumption is wrong.
Studies that considered all kinds of household chores - including those stereotypically done by men - show that men and women put in roughly the same time on average to the household. Also, even though men age faster due to worse healthcare, they put in as about as much social support time (studies tend to show slightly more).
So men work just as much around the home, just as much socially outside the home, they commute for longer, work for longer at their employment.
And STILL younger men's hourly earnings are below women's of the same age (thought to be because of their worse average education) and STILL they will far more often support a woman at home with children than be supported to care for children.
Oh, and before I leave you gobsmacked with the idea that this in any way can be truly represented as oppression of females, let me encourage you to look up two other statistics: the spending of surplus income between men and women, and the amount of income tax paid by women compared to men.

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Submitted by Douglas on Tue, 2025-08-26 19:43