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Even Batgirl believes the wage gap lie.

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August 20, 2015

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Title	Even Batgirl believes the wage gap lie.
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	18
Comments	13
Date	August 20, 2015 5:35 PM UTC (10 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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[–]unklestinky 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago* (3 children) | Copy Link

I don't think anybody (who is rational) is going to argue that the gap existed in the past, and that the equal pay acts in both the U.S. and U.K. were signed for a reason, and that they were/are needed.

Now as far as your sources:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/equalpayact1.html

Again nobody is going to really argue the historical reasons for the Equal Pay Act. In fact I am going to bet that if you polled everyone here that damn near 100% would agree with it and support it's existence.

With that said this article is complete garbage in explaining the reasons for the pay gap. It does not do an apple to apples comparison.

http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/CEA/html/gendergap.html

For starters this article is over 15 years old. It was released the same year Armageddon was in theaters.

Secondly the article itself states:

The unexplained portion of the pay gap is often interpreted as the result of discrimination. In this view, once differences between men and women in the relevant determinants of wages are taken into account, any remaining difference in pay must be due to discrimination. But this explanation may be too simplistic. To the extent that discrimination affects women's educational, job, and family choices, the "unexplained" differential will understate the true effect of discrimination. And, to the extent that an analyst cannot adequately measure all the determinants of wages using available data, there may be significant unmeasured labor market skills that differ between men and women. For instance, if women's labor market experience is less likely to be continuous (for example, due to childbearing), then just controlling for years of work may not fully control for the differential effects of experience on male and female wages. In this case, the "unexplained" differential will overstate the true effect of discrimination, because it includes the effect of relevant unmeasured factors that influence the relative productivity of male and female employees.

I am just going to leave it at that. This is pretty much what everyone here is arguing.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/41/pdfs/ukpga_19700041_en.pdf

Again nobody is going to argue the historical reasons for it, or that the legislation doesn't exist for a reason. However most here would argue that it has been a success.

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