Is there a wage gap?

Question

http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba392/

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/21/commentary/everyday/sahadi/

Answer 1

Yes but it is nothing to do with sexism, Wage Gap, Domestic Violence and Rape statistics are used to enrage and manipulate women, demonise men, gain access to funding and lobby for laws that discriminate against men.

Quote

"If you worked 35 hours per week as an administrative assistant, would you expect to get paid as much as the surgeon who works 60 hours per week? Most people would agree that the person who has more skills or works longer hours should have their training and labour rewarded. However when it comes to gender issues we tend to have a collective blind spot, and all too readily jump to the conclusion that women are being exploited. Thus when we hear that the average woman gets paid less than the average man, many people immediately presume this is caused by sexism. However, this is what the UK governmental department of statistics says:  

"Women's weekly earnings, including overtime, were lower than men's. This was partly because they worked fewer paid hours per week. ...Although median hourly pay provides a useful comparison between the earnings of men and women, it does not necessarily indicate differences in rates of pay for comparable jobs. Pay medians are affected by the different work patterns of men and women, such as the proportions in different occupations and their length of time in jobs" i.e. women get paid less on average because on average they work fewer hours or in less well-paid occupations. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget....



As you can see it really isn't difficult to figure this out, but the issue gets promoted in the media as evidence of sexism. Ironically, female statisticians earn more than men (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, cited here http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=621 and its easy to find examples of jobs where women are being paid more than men e.g. “Young women in New York and several of the nation’s other largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/nyregi...

Or: “Female directors in corporate America earned median compensation of $120,000, based on the most recently available pay data, compared with $104,375 for male board members, research group The Corporate Library said "http://www.reuters.com/article/domestic...

In fact if you look at specific demographics you will see that  single men and male part-time workers are worse off than their female counterparts e.g. "weekly median gross earnings for a woman working part-time are £145.60; for a man [working part-time] £137.80" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment...

Answer 2

The wage gap is a myth.in all but a few cases, and most of those see women being paid more.

It does not account for the extra time that women take off for child-rearing or for the fact that a man and a woman may have tthe sam job classification, but the men need to be on hand to do all the manual handling.  Therefore, the work is not equal, and neither shouuld the pay be equal.

Answer 3

funny thing, men wouldn't work in a job if they were overall getting paid significantly less then the next guy, they'd form unions, get political, or leave the job, find something better, or blaze their own path.  Women take a job, get the sucker wage, stay in the job, and whine about it.  Go figure.

Answer 4

whats that

Answer 5

there is a wage gap, only if you believe a doctor and nurse should make the same amount of money.

   It is a myth, but there is a growing wage gap though if you look at same field same hour's women on average make 1.50$ more then men do in areas like NYC and other metropolitan areas.

But feminist like to ignore the truth because lieing is all they have ever known.

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

No.

Answer 8

Yes, and the two articles you quote have an anti scientific (and often not logical) approach.

I don't consider the NCPA article  as a matter of discussion: my opinions and neo-con opinions are too distant to start a dialog. You cannot use what they say as a scientific or impartial statement: it is not and it is organic to their corporate world vision.

About CNN article , they try to say that "hey, may be women works less hours or choose lower pay job" . Wow, that's really a shrewd and smart observation. Meanwhile why women need to choose less paid and shorter hours jobs? may be because this society is organized in a way they often have to follow three jobs at once (housekeeper, educator and worker)? Is this not the same problem, seen from another point of view?

I am a man and I work in management of international companies since more than 20 years: I know that companies demand much more  (in exchange of the same salary and position) to women candidates. May be it is not a conscious choice, may be is forced by social conditioning of the same candidates. Whatever: this is the reality, almost everywhere (you may exclude some north European countries and may be Cuba, or it may be just less evident in the rest of Europe and in the USA than in developing countries, but that's all)

Answer 9

Absolutely.  Back in the mid 80s, women were earning 51 cents in comparison to males' $1.  Here we are, twenty years later, and the ratio is merely approx. 72 cents versus the masculine dollar.  While there has certainly been progress, it still isn't equitable.  Will it ever be?

Answer 10

Based on my own personal experience in my field, I have found that yes, indeed there is.

Answer 11

I don't know any women who makes less than a man with the same experience.  Do you?  Heck they'd be a hollerin

all over TV.  

Answer 12

No, it's feminist propaganda, usually reported as fact.

Answer 13

In the broadest sense, there is, but very little of it is due to discrimination.