Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

Time magazine ^ | September 1, 2010 | Belinda Luscombe

[grundle]

According to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more. This squares with earlier research from Queens College, New York, that had suggested that this was happening in major metropolises. But the new study suggests that the gap is bigger than previously thought, with young women in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego making 17%, 12% and 15% more than their male peers, respectively. And it also holds true even in reasonably small areas like the Raleigh-Durham region and Charlotte in North Carolina (both 14% more), and Jacksonville, Fla. (6%).

Here's the slightly deflating caveat: this reverse gender gap, as it's known, applies only to unmarried, childless women under 30 who live in cities.

[camle]

i thought it was about equality, not who’s on top...

[treetopsandroofs]

Ask any left wing freak if, now that one of Holder’s people is president, whether the time for affirmative action is over, and the answer is invariably the same, “No, we’re not there YET.” Of course not.

[9YearLurker]

It used to be very legitimate and really substantial—women were expected to work outside the home only if they were unmarried and men were expected to “support a family” on their salary, so they regularly got paid quite a bit more for the same work.

For years, however, the substantial differences for the same background, experience and hours have only been in such as the rarified air of investment banking and a few other such pockets.

The 70% figures have been bogus for several decades now.

[SamuraiScot]

Fed-Ex is the largest employer, followed closely by Memphis Public Schools and the US Gov't

If both #2 and #3 employers are the gubmint, that explains this unsurprising statistic. The gubmint is a preferential employer and over-payer of single moms. At the lowest level, where the bell curve is widest, most gubmint jobs function as a somewhat more demanding form of welfare.

[9YearLurker]

Actually that’s very much how genetics have programmed women: look for the stud alpha to pass on his genes to the children, then the safe nester to help to raise the babies.

And you’re right, women tend to fight those conflicting urges in the modern world that doesn’t always reward them.

[astounded]

I’ve always preferred my women on top.............

[vwbug]

Is that because you can only screw up?

[hal ogen]

This so unfair. What ever happen to equality? Shouldn’t someone or other be sued for discrimination? Women are so discriminatory. This is disgusting.

[The Working Man]

Actually that’s very much how genetics have programmed women: look for the stud alpha to pass on his genes to the children, then the safe nester to help to raise the babies.

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I’ve been observing this phenomena for years. I have also seen in recent years the rejection of those women happening more and more. As one of my former co-workers told me. I’m good enough to provide a good safe home to her, (Ex-GF), and her three kids by a bunch of well-hung losers who are nowhere to be found now that the kids and she needs them. But I’m not good enough to have any kids of my own with her.

In his case he eventually did find a very nice woman but it took him years and the internet to do so.

[bikerman]

I like women on top.

[9YearLurker]

Here’s an article on it:

http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/dbio/2009/02/the-evolutionary-psychology-of-womens-preferences-for-differing-types-of-men-at-different-times-of-their-reproductive-cycl.html

Might as well go with the flow and find a nice young single mom with kids to be the hero for.

[Roccus]

“No, we’re not there YET.”

...and they will never get "there" because of their distorted view of where "there" is.

[Coldwater Creek]

Thanks for the update. Time passes quickly. I guess that with all the annexation Memphis Child Abuse would be the next largest.

[astounded]

Maybe.....

[Verginius Rufus]

Memphis has about 650,000 people (about 1.3 million in the metro area). In the city itself the population is about 63% black, 30% white, and 7% other minorities.

Black women generally are doing a lot better than black men as far as educational level and employment--so that could be a major part of why women in Memphis are doing well compared to men.

[kearnyirish2]

“Well, heck - they can at least get pregnant, can’t they!”

They can, but that’s not so popular now with the 5 year limit, no extra cash-for-kids, etc.

Instead we’ll just be inundated with “replacement Americans”...