I know it has to do with a speech that Lawrence Summers gave..he was President of Harvard, I think...
I am SURE a freeper will help more than me, though, sorry.
Rush Limbaugh often talks about this.
Sorry dude. All the research is done by feminist researchers that don't care if that's the case or not.
Try here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=women+pay+experience&sourceid=opera&num=75&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
I'm going to have plastic surgery done so I'll stop looking so much like a search engine.
Bookmarking, as lurker son is preparing term paper on this exact subject.
Look here.....
http://www.iwf.org/issues/issues_list.asp?sType=73
...and your friend might also avail herself of Phyllis Schlafly's books.
Try "Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap And What Women Can Do About It" by Warren Farrell.
In it, Farrell compares the starting salaries for women and men with Bachelor’s Degrees in 26 categories of employment, from investment banker to dietician. Women are paid equally in one category; in every other category, their starting salaries exceed men’s. A female investment banker’s starting salary is 116 percent of a man’s. A female dietician’s is 130 percent; that is, $23,160 compared to $17,680.
Next, Farrell analyzes the data that does reflect a wage gap. But rather than seeing oppression in the data, he perceives free choice. He argues: women commonly prefer jobs with shorter and more flexible hours to accommodate the demands of family. Compared to men, they generally favor jobs that involve little danger, no travel and good social skills. Such jobs generally pay less.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time men clock an average of 45 hours a week, while women put in 42 hours. Men are more than twice as likely as women to work at least 50 hours a week.
Women’s lifestyle choices partly explain their absence from certain professions, especially dangerous ones. Men represent 92 percent of all occupational deaths. Why? Because if you look at a list of the most hazardous occupations -- fire fighting, truck driving, construction, and mining -- they have 96-98 percent male employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I started looking into this information because, as a female engineer, I didn't see any difference in the pay between my male and female coworkers - except for those that chose to take time off from work for children, chose not to accept jobs that required travel, chose not to pursue higher degrees... It was all a matter of choice, so their whining about how unfair it all was really made me angry (among both men and women)!
If this were evenly remotely true....there wouldn't be an employed man...nor an unemployed women in America.
The reality is there is a whole range of tangible reasons why people are paid more or less. Simply being a "women" isn't one of them.
