[Dilbert San Diego]

Are women paid less because of illegal discrimination?

Or do women, as a group, earn less, because as a group, women are still found in lower paying jobs, or because they get off the career track for a time to deal with having children and taking care of family matters?

Is it possible that there are women who intentionally choose to be in lower paying jobs or careers, because those jobs have more flexibility to allow them to take care of their families??

But, it seems we are not allowed to ask such questions in this politically correct age. We are supposed to accept the mantra that “woman are paid less than men”, and that it’s due to the bigoted society we live in.

[Tax-chick]

The Wall Street Journal had an article on this just a few days ago. It found that the difference in pay between men and women (aggregated) was greatest in fields requiring the most education and expertise. These occupations - medicine, law, banking - highly reward the total focus on the job that men are more like than women to devote to it.

At other economic levels, factors such as choice of occupation and years of experience explain a lot of the difference.

[PapaBear3625]

Or do women, as a group, earn less, because as a group, women are still found in lower paying jobs, or because they get off the career track for a time to deal with having children and taking care of family matters?

Or perhaps because they prefer comfortable jobs on comfortable schedules?

How many women fix roofs in the hot August sun, fix power lines in the middle of a sleet-storm, pick up trash cans all day, work as night-shift convenience-store cashier in the "inner city"? If the job is dangerous, inconvenient, uncomfortable, or nasty, chances are that it's predominantly performed by men, who then expect premium pay in exchange for the conditions.