It’s not fair that men drive faster than women and are willing to go where the fares are the highest!
Generally women create and maintain the pay gap by choosing to not do what men are willing to do. Doesn’t matter the profession.
If you choose not to run with the big dogs, you get porch pay.
And that’s the Uber-and-Under. Badoom tish.
Curiously?
The author of this piece needs a full brain flush if he thinks this is curious. I've never used Uber, but I'm pretty sure the app doesn't give users the option to call a male or a female driver. If ride generation is sex-neutral, it's hard to see how "discrimination" could enter the equation even on the absurd hypothesis that someone would want to do so.
As with probably 90+% of the “pay gap” . . . it’s due to other factors besides discrimination.
However, differences in working styles between men and women contributed to the pay gap. The study summarized the findings in three factors.
How is that 'curious?' The author inserts that emotional bias and then debunks it with the facts.
Women have to stop and make sammichs more often than men.
It’s HARD to drive and apply your make-up in the rear-view mirror!
(Though, I guess, now-a-days it could be Snowflake Males doing that, too!)
*SMIRK*
Why curious? That's pretty much the case wherever there's a discrepancy. Unless you mean curious that they'd actually admit it.
This simply must be stopped! How outrageous.
And yet, the seven percent pay gap stays roughly in line with the overall pay gap across all industries, including traditional professions.
Stopped reading here. A study was done of Engineers who entered the work force in 1974. Female Engineers who NEVER LEFT THE WORK FORCE made the same money the men did. Period.
Don’t expect feminists to agree with this research. Facts are irrelevant to them. They simply demand you accept any pay differential must be discrimination and there must be a government enforced solution (i.e. use government with the monopoly on force to force people to pay women more).
JoMa
I only tip MALE Uber drivers. It’s one small way to fight the ‘me too’ movement.
Most surprising? What? That men are more aggressive than women and drive faster?
Or, if you drive faster, you can complete more runs and make more money?
None of this crap is surprising, whether it is about uber, ibm, comcast, or pro sports. Men earn more because on average, they work more than women.
Ladies, don't get your panties all wadded up, there are exceptions to every rule, I know, because I worked for a female CEO, and she was one of the best bosses I ever had.
You couldn't out work her because it was her company, and she wanted it's success more than any one.
She was also sharp and when she retired she was worth BIG BUCKS.
If Uber drivers average only $21. per hour and have to pay their expenses out of that my question is not why 65 percent leave within six months but why does anyone do it at all? There would seem to be no possible way to do anything but lose money. $21. an hour with no benefits is not very good pay even for someone who has no expenses to pay out of that.