HuffPo at it again...

regular_guy_ · 2013-05-10T13:10:49+00:00

And to make a man's amount of money over her career, the typical working women would have to put in an extra decade of work.

It's almost as if between earlier retirement for women, maternity leave, and more sick days used by women, the typical man already DOES an extra decade of work.

Funny thing, that.

zaikanekochan · 2013-05-10T12:53:32+00:00

My favorite part: "Discrimination plays a role as well. A 2007 study published in the American Journal of Sociology discovered that women who were mothers were recommended for lower starting salaries than female coworkers who didn’t have children." AKA women are paid less because some women are paid more than women who are paid less.

Idiopathic77 · 2013-05-10T15:36:00+00:00

From the comments.

When you count makeup - which a woman has to wear for work - then you see that not only do they make less, but their living expenses are significantly higher. How is this fair?

God I hope this is sarcasm. So tired of hearing how vanity is something we should subsidize for equality sake.

parkowork · 2013-05-10T16:22:14+00:00

1> Take bad data

2> Extrapolate bad data for a period of 40 years.

3> ????

4> PROFIT

The wage gap myth is always perpetuated by not using proper data. When you compare similar jobs across similar industries, the gap becomes non-existant.

literallyschmiteraly · 2013-05-10T13:18:45+00:00

They've really been beating this drum lately and I wonder why.

masterjack98 · 2013-05-10T16:09:57+00:00

why don't they ever talk about the thousand workplace deaths in the U.S. which are overwhelmingly male?

PeterPorky · 2013-05-10T15:14:13+00:00

Are there any statistics for the average salary of the same job for the same amount of time?

The article mentions 2/3 of minimum wage workers are women- that's obviously going to skew it.

fia_bui · 2013-05-10T13:48:28+00:00

It would be funny to rewrite this article with the stats for all the holidays and time off the average man looses out on.

2013-05-10T18:06:25+00:00

At least most of the comments were disagreeing with the article.

kingdomgnark · 2013-05-10T20:02:15+00:00

no sources, because i'm too lazy, so post them if you got them, but i remember many different studies/examples/etc. given where the following was the reason.

same position: Man's salary: 65,000 Woman's salary: 60,000 UNFAIR!!!! but: Man's weekly hous: 60-80 Woman's weekly hours: 40-50

soooooooooooooo... i don't see a problem

MRMRising · 2013-05-10T21:22:32+00:00

And to make a man's amount of money over her career, the typical working women would have to put in an extra decade of work.

Or, she could choose to not leave the workforce to care for children, that is your decade right there. Also, she could work later into her 60's, and, into her 70's, as many men do.

Ceteris__Paribus · 2013-05-10T15:48:21+00:00

For the curious, the Source used for the statement:

The typical full-time working woman stands to miss out on $443,360 over 40 years because of the gender wage gap

is based off of the $0.77 statistic.

abortionalchild · 2013-05-10T16:04:27+00:00

Part of the problem is that females represent the majority of minimum-wage workers, Katherine Gallagher Robbins, a Senior Policy Analyst at NWLC, told the Huffington Post. Almost two-thirds of minimum-wage workers are female, and women make up the majority of workers in the ten largest occupations that pay less than $10.10 an hour, according to a NWLC analysis.

That's only Part of the problem? ಠ_ಠ

paracog · 2013-05-10T20:09:08+00:00

If the internet had a checkout stand, there you would find the Huffington Post.

OztinL · 2013-05-11T04:25:07+00:00

I'll never understand why you guys keep acknowledging the Huffington Post. It's not only a sexist news outlet but quite racist as well.

luxury_banana · 2013-05-10T13:55:56+00:00

HuffPo will let anyone who toes the dominant political ideology to post whatever brain farts they have. It's very rare to see anything that isn't along those lines.

typhonblue · 2013-05-10T17:19:12+00:00

Slaves often made more money than their masters, too!

Coldbeam · 2013-05-10T22:30:18+00:00

Could we start doing ss's instead of giving shitty sites like this page hits?

Title	HuffPo at it again...
Author	zaikanekochan
Upvotes	83
Comments	49
Date	May 10, 2013 12:35 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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