CBS News claims the gender pay gap "is a Complete Myth.

The only chairwoman in the FTSE 100 index of biggest British companies, when asked about government efforts to force companies to make at least 25% of board member to be female said: "there's no real evidence to suggest women being on a board makes the companies any better – what we're doing here is forcing an experiment."

This was further supported in the book “Why Men Earn More" by Warren Farrell, Ph.D., examined 25 career/life choices men and women make (hours, commute times, etc.) that lead to men earning more and women having more balanced lives, and that showed how men in surveys prioritize money while women prioritize flexibility, shorter hours, shorter commutes, less physical risk and other factors conducive to their choice to be primary parents, an option men still largely don’t have. That is why never-married childless women outearn their male counterparts, and female corporate directors now outearn their male counterparts.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0752118220071107?feedTy…

Farrell also lists dozens of careers, including fields of science, where women outearn men. Women simply have more options than men to be primary parents, and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours. That is why 57% of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years of entry into the workforce.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/15/optout.revolution/

This is an option few men have (try being a single male and telling women on the first date that you want to stay home).

Blaming men for women’s choices is unfair. In fact research shows most men have no problem with their wives outearning them.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23413243

Research also shows most working dads would quit or take a pay cut to spend more time with kids if their spouses could support the family.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/Careers/06/13/dads.work/index.html

Research also shows that parents share workloads more when mothers allow men to be primary parents.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm

ABC News: “Is the Wage Gap Women’s Choice? Research Suggests Career Decisions, Not Sex Bias, Are at Root of Pay Disparity”

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=797045&page=1&CMP=OTC-R

There is also the myth that women are kept out of certain more lucrative fields by sexism. The truth is that women stay away from math out of their own free choice

http://sify.com/news/women-stay-away-from-math-out-of-their-own-free-choice-news-scitech-kk1lubiiiee.html

Women In Science: No Discrimination, Says Cornell Study

http://www.science20.com/news_articles/women_science_no_discrimination_says_cornell_study-75984

Let’s be real about the lack of women in tech

http://www.businessinsider.com/lets-be-real-about-the-lack-of-women-in-tech-2010-10

Mitchell78 · 2014-01-03T19:54:31+00:00

They are right.

Honztastic · 2014-01-04T05:52:22+00:00

They aren't claiming anything.

THey're stating a known fact.

Ma99ie · 2014-01-04T03:47:12+00:00

Feminist backlash in 3...2...1

niggelprease · 2014-01-04T11:49:11+00:00

It's important to separate the concepts of "pay gap" and "pay discrimination". There is a gender pay gap, just like there is a pay gap between factory floor workers and CEOs. But the factory floor worker typically earns less because he has a different job than the CEO, not because he is discriminated (although people with communist leanings would disagree with that). The same goes for men vs women.

failbirdtown · 2014-01-03T23:10:58+00:00

Can we talk about how this article is two and a half years old?

TacticusThrowaway · 2014-01-04T04:32:40+00:00

Well, this'll surely have tens of thousands of reblogs on Tumblr within theAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sorry. Couldn't keep a straight face.

ballsbajalls · 2014-01-04T15:13:04+00:00

Dat gap!

ThrustVectoring · 2014-01-04T15:22:22+00:00

There is a pay gap, it's just very misleading to talk about the pay gap alone and leaving the reader all alone to explain it with sexism. Women, as a class, tend to be better at getting non-monetary benefits from work -- things like time off to raise children, prestigious jobs like teaching, a safe and clean work environment, etc. It doesn't take any more than a freshman economics course's worth of understanding to see why choices like that make you earn less money.

gsettle · 2014-01-04T03:51:02+00:00

No problem. Statistics can be used to "Prove" or disprove anything. Read the book, "How to Lie with Statistics".

VaginalAssaultRifles · 2014-01-04T15:13:52+00:00

"Claims"?

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