Logic isn't your thing. I guess statistics aren't either. These are real numbers that are actually affecting people's lives. Explaining why something is the way it is does not make it go away. here is the most common argument regarding the pay gap "myth."
Men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour week earned 88% of male earnings.
Then there is the issue of marriage and children. The BLS (US Bureau of Labor) reports that single women who have never married earned 96% of menâs earnings in 2012.
The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market, so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males.
But Explaining why something is the way it is does not make it go away. Just like explaining why the sky is seen as blue to our eyes does not make us no longer see it as blue.
But why is it that women have less experience than men after they have children?
Could it be because they have no right to have a job after they leave to have a child? There is no workplace protection for a woman to go and have a baby. The Supreme Court even ruled as such.Â
So now they cannot go back to the job they were doing for the same pay and are forced to take less pay for a lesser job. But lets not just trust random words from some idiot on tumblr, how about we ask someone who has studied the issue from an economic perspective, someone who's job is to study wage issues at the Department of Labor.
Economists generally attribute about 40% of the pay gap to discrimination â making about 60% explained by differences between workers or their jobs. However, even the âexplainedâ differences between men and women might be more complicated. For example: If high school girls are discouraged from taking the math and science classes that lead to high-paying STEM jobs, shouldnât we in some way count that as a lost equal earnings opportunity?
But even all that aside we are ignoring what the argument that the pay gap is a myth actually said. When comparing all full time working women to all full time working men the wage gap is still $0.88 for women for every dollar a man makes.
When you compare single women to all men it shrinks to 96% of mens earning.
Additionally, what that is saying is that the only a way a women can come close to earning what a man does is to limit all her life choices, no family, no spouse, no children. But that is a choice that you and I never have to make, we can make more money than women in the same positions while having a spouse, children and a complete family.
But let me guess none of this matters because you think things are equal. Even though facts are right there for you too see just like me.Â
But since to you $0.88=$1.00 how about you just give 12% of your paycheck back to your employer, since it is all equal.Â
