hyperlexian wrote:
let me help you out:
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By looking at a very specific and detailed sample of workers (graduates of the University of Michigan Law School) economists Robert Wood, Mary Corcoran and Paul Courant were able to examine the wage gap while matching men and women for many other possible explanatory factors - not only occupation, age, experience, education, and time in the workforce, but also childcare, average hours worked, grades while in college, and other factors. Even after accounting for all that, women still are paid only 81.5% of what men "with similar demographic characteristics, family situations, work hours, and work experience" are paid.[19]
summary was from Wikipedia, but here is the original article:
http://myweb.uiowa.edu/noona/sf.pdfQuote:
Similarly, a comprehensive study by the staff of the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that the gender wage gap can only be partially explained by human capital factors and "work patterns." The GAO study, released in 2003, was based on data from 1983 through 2000 from a representative sample of Americans between the ages of 25 and 65. The researchers controlled for "work patterns," including years of work experience, education, and hours of work per year, as well as differences in industry, occupation, race, marital status, and job tenure. With controls for these variables in place, the data showed that women earned, on average, 20% less than men during the entire period 1983 to 2000. In a subsequent study, GAO found that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Department of Labor “should better monitor their performance in enforcing anti-discrimination laws.”
again quoted from wikipedia, and here are the original articles:
http://www.gao.gov/assets/280/279567.pdfhttp://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0435.pdfit looks like american women earn about 80% of what men do, even taking a large number of variables into account.
you're welcome.
Okay, I took a good look at both of those sources. For the first one, the field of law is just one of many fields. I could point out that male models make many
times less money than female models. In the big picture, neither is very relevant.
Their conclusions were not that this was the result of male privilege, but rather, of three things:
1) Women in the workforce are also less likely to work a full-time schedule and are more likely to leave the labor force for longer periods of time than men, further suppressing women's wages. These differing work patterns lead to an even larger earnings gap between men and women - suggesting that working women are penalized for their dual roles as wage earners and those who disproportionately care for home and family.
2) Men with children appear to get an earnings boost, whereas women lose earnings. Men with children earn about 2% more on average than men without children, according to the GAO findings, whereas women with children earn about 2.5% less than women without children.
3) Women have fewer years of work experience.
So still, it has more to do with the fact women tend to juggle career and family life than anything else.
29 Jan 2012, 12:52 am
