Redpill me on the wage gap /pol/
http://time.com/money/4009768/wage-gap-men-women-equal-pay/
>Last year, President Obama made headlines when he noted in his State of the Union address that women who worked full-time, year-round earn 77¢ for every dollar men earn across the country. (It’s 78¢ now, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.) The Bureau of Labor Statistics pegs that figure slightly higher, with median weekly earnings for women—$669 in 2012, the most recent year for which data is available—at 82% of men’s weekly wages
>“That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment,” the president said of the pay differential. “Women deserve equal pay for equal work.”
>While Obama’s speech may give the impression that the entire 22¢ gap is the product of gender bias, that’s not exactly true. Both the Census and BLS take into account “occupational segregation,” or the tendency for women to enter lower-paying fields than men, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, as well as the fact that women take more time off from work due to pregnancy and child care, as noted in a report prepared for the Department of Labor by CONSAD Research Corp.
>but what if we eliminated those factors and controlled for things like years of experience, education, skills and responsibilities, time in the workforce—in short, everything but discrimination?
>You still wouldn’t get to zero. CONSAD’s analysis suggests that the gap shrinks to between 93¢ and 95¢ cents, but that can vary considerably depending on the industry. Just look at Silicon Valley, where recent high-profile legal battles have prompted the California Legislature to create the California Fair Pay Act, a tougher equal pay law that will make it harder for employers to pay men more than women for substantially similar work and prohibit them from retaliating against women who ask about the pay of male colleagues
There isn't one.
What is there to red pill you on? A 5 minute Google search will give you all the information you need to prove the wage gap false.
Short answer:
The gap is small, probably within the margin of error or due to women negotiating salary less aggressively.
So, it's not a thing.
men are more capable than women, they eventually get themselves in to positions that pay more than women.
>>71981918
>become gender studies major
>make jack shit
>HURR INJUSTICE
women are less aggressive in negotiating salary as >>71982052 said but other than that it can be chalked up to inter and intra-career choices endemic to gender differences
>>71981918
When you control for industry, job position, hours worked, and years worked at company the pay gap is nonexistent.
>>71981918
If anything, women make more now. This trend will be more noticeable when baby boomers retire and it won't be disputable anymore.
the average man makes 23% more money than the average woman, but the average man is a statistical construct that is both not real and 19 times more likely to die in a workplace accident, so the average woman can spot him the extra money
>>71982204
The article disagrees
If you actually look at what men do versus what women do, it becomes clear that the "wage gap" is entirely made up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWBXbGVyQU
It's literally bad, sloppy sampling.
>>71982344
>Women business owners make less than half of what male business owners make
Holy shit, fucking kek.
There isn't one, it's all because womyn don't pursue careers as hard and take lighter jobs or don't work as long and opt for extra hours.
>>71982261
The average for men most likely is very skewed at the high end, making the average artifically high, compared to the women's average. It's probably a lot closer than that.
>>71981918
Read the Consad report on the wage gap, it BTFO of any arguments for it
If you got 40 minutes to listen this goes into it pretty in depth
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
Real useful for shutting down leftists that go on about it as they all tend to worship freakonomics without actually reading the book or listening to their stuff.
>>71981918
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf_OlEb5OFg
Bonus round:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy5gPWAoU7E
>>71982344
>the average fulltime working man works 6 hours per week
What
>>71981918
here;s your redpill
women choose the more cushy and less physically/mentally demaning jobs, want to be paid the same as the people who work harder/more than them
>>71982991
If you finished reading that sentence, it says "6 hours a week longer"
>we live in a world where the most powerful person (the public knows of) can get on a stage in front of the whole word and tell blatant lies to further his own ends
just one of the things wrong with this world. really disheartening t b h
>>71982160
Survival of the fittest. Same reason we need to abolish affirmative action
/thread
>>71982557
This, capitalism is not only colorblind, but gender blind. It operates in terms of numbers and nothing more.
If Men = 1 and Women = .7 and you need a total of 3 three people to be a job there is no logical reason why you would pay three men more money for a job three women would be equally capable of doing.
Corporate tycoons might be corrupt, evil and bad people but they will never sacrifice money unnecessarily for the sake of 'muh patriarchy'.
>>71983279
this 20 bill is cancer
