What Matt Yglesias Got Wrong on the Gender Pay Gap

DavidByron2 · 2015-02-26T03:54:31+00:00

Proper controls my ass.

With just two controls I bet you could "prove" women are paid 20% more than men if you picked the right ones.

GenderNeutralLanguag · 2015-02-26T04:14:02+00:00

Hell I'll take Matt Yglesias study at face value. This is a very strong position to take, and it doesn't give ground to feminists. There does exist a very small wage gap of 4.5%, and this wage gap is caused by statistical discrimination, not wage discrimination.

This ties in strongly with many other arguments in the MRM. Since the discrimination is not wage discrimination, but statistical discrimination, the solution isn't to concoct draconian laws to enforce wage parity. The solution is to change the behaviors of men and women to eliminate the statistical differences that the discrimination is based upon.

Father's rights, if we stop excluding fathers from parenthood then men can take more parental responsibilities and this will shift the statistics showing women to be less reliable.

OR, because I know someone will argue this, we could just accept that a 4.5% wage gap is perfectly acceptable because it's based upon actual gender differences in statistical discrimination.

I mean just moving up "equal pay day" to Jan 16th instead of April will really take the wind out of the feminist sails. Arguing that there is no discrimination when the raw difference is so large is a loosing argument (even if correct). Arguing that there is a rather small difference explained by statistical discrimination rather than wage discrimination is a much stronger argument.

Title	What Matt Yglesias Got Wrong on the Gender Pay Gap
Author	tomsaw200
Upvotes	5
Comments	2
Date	February 26, 2015 2:27 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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