The Truth About the Pay Gap

2009-11-27T09:31:48+00:00

Great article, but there's no need for musings of opinion pieces anymore. A 2008 investigation of the US Department of Labor about the gender wage gap [PDF] concluded:

Although additional research in this area is clearly needed, this study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.

And that's the truth about the pay gap. Of course feminists will never bring that up. They work like creationists: when they think the science and the data agree with them, parade them around shouting SEE WE WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG. When they don't, just quietly ignore it or discredit it. Blame it on some oppressing conspiracy so they can keep playing the underdog, even though the majority of the population already agrees with them and they control public policy more than they'd like to admit (or it would jeopardize their victim status).

WindKin · 2009-11-28T02:53:09+00:00

Ah, statistics. Misused, misread and misquoted since the beginning of time. This is a classic case of "head in oven, feet in freezer, nice mean temperature" really. If you compare men and women in the same fields, with the same experience, from the same year, I wonder if the gap won't just fall within the statistic uncertainty of the poll itself. Long been suspecting this, nice to have som data to back that up.

Title	The Truth About the Pay Gap
Author	AccordionHero
Upvotes	13
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Date	November 27, 2009 8:12 AM UTC (16 years ago)
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