Four ways the gender pay gap isn't all it seems - BBC News

BDMR_lurker · 2016-08-29T23:24:28+00:00

Wow, the BBC is actually admitting that the 'pay gap' is far narrower than previously claimed.

And that women have agency (although society forces them into choices, and because patriarchy a little too, they can't go cold turkey).

Strip out the part-time workers, and the gap pretty much disappears for women aged 22 to 39.

Who would have thunk?

Still, it's the BBC: the gap "disappears for women" because it "appears for men" in this age class. But let's not write this.

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Women are three times more likely to be part-time workers than men.

Not to be pedantic, but actually, men are three times less likely to work part-time.

We don't have that option. Part-time is not always a choice, but when it is, it's more often a choice given to women.

Fewer men marry into money. Men don't have a plan B. Stay at home dads are ridiculed.

And thus, men work.

Imnotmrabut · 2016-08-30T01:05:13+00:00

You know that the Feminist Castles in the Air are Crumbling when even the BBC questions the Labial Orthodoxy and admit they are agnostic on feminist claims and memes!

Should one sing Hallelujah, or just sigh with relief that sanity is returning to the gender debate?

I wonder what the Fawcett society will do on their supposed #EqualPayDay 2016 (Circa 09 November), and if they will want to keep making claims that even the BBC now can't support!

MagicTampon · 2016-08-30T05:52:52+00:00

Title	Four ways the gender pay gap isn't all it seems - BBC News
Author	JohnKimble111
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Date	August 29, 2016 10:26 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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