A Goebbelsian myth as widespread as climate change.
Jaysus, Mary, and Joseph, if they wanted to study "work," they certainly picked the wrong place.
Duh...
Look, just because I want to flip burgers for the rest of my life, it’s not fair that Bill Gates has more money than me; I’m entitled to as much as he has. /s
That $.89/$1.00 female/male ratio looks like gross pay. For equal work, under equal conditions (same number of hours, same ratio of overtime/regular hours), the pay is identical.
At least, this is what the data shows for the Boston MBTA.
It makes me wonder and ask, “How many of these gender earnings studies confuse total annual take for pay rates?”
The “wage gap” myth has been perpetuated almost entirely by infantile people who have never met the demands of a private-sector managerial job.
> In order to prove their point, authors Valentin Bolotnyy and Natalia Emanuel looked at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) <
I’m guessing that these authors will soon be out of work. Or they could print a slobbering retraction. They could say that they forgot to “normalize” the data.
They don’t care about facts. At the end of the day they want to have the same W2 as a man who did not demand all that flexibility.
And, the way things are headed, they’ll eventually get it.
It’s seen as the man’s job to go out and earn a living to support his family.
The man wants to support his family, and willingly goes out to work. It’s part of being a man.
If you could get the same work done for less money, you would do it. If women were really paid less for the same work, companies would only hire women.
“Let me repeat: When you work fewer hours, you will make less than what others make who work more hours.”
Put another way:
When people compare salaries based on equal “years of experience”, they’re _not_ comparing HOURS of experience. Someone who works a 2500 hour year will have 25% more experience than someone working a “normal” 2000 hour year ... and soon their pay will reflect that.
Have the paternalistic authors of the study been terminated yet?
And this gets to the heart of the whole “inequality is unfair” notion:
Someone working 60-80 hour weeks at skilled & insightful & high-demand work WILL earn significantly more than someone just clocking in a scant 40 hours at a job anyone can do ... and when their kids reflect their parents’ behavior, onward for generations, there WILL be a _substantial_ inequality of wealth.
Amazing that "obvious" commonsense comes from Harvard of all places. This have been a known fact for years. Yes, there was a time that a female executive salary was not equal to a male salary. That is no longer the case. Hourly wages vary, because women just don't work the same hours as men while taking care of their fatherless children. Exceptions excluded.
Butthurt for the Pink Pussy Hat radicals. They will go ballistic on this.
Here is the problem.
Femies think they should be able to drop out of the workforce for a couple of years thennplug back in as if they never left.
As a woman who has been in the workforce for over 30 years, I am not surprised. I am fine with women chosing more flexibilty, but there is a cost.
Men barely work 8 hours a day, on average? I get why women would work a bit less than 8, but it sounds like for every guy we have working 10 hours we have another one working only 6???
bkmk
Doesn’t matter WHY pay is different - women have to get as much as men. Even if they stay home all day.