| Moonlighter said: That's a very ambiguous statement that doesn't exactly pin point a problem but rather generalizes what the wage gap already does. Is there any citation to prove this? Here's my citations to back up the claims I've made. Many don't seem to understand what the wage gap takes into account. All it does is take the average earnings of all men and women and compare without taking in any variables. That's it. It doesn't take into account if the employees worked full time or part time, how many hours were worked per week, the longevity someone has been in the work place, education, maternity leave, among multiple other variables. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oqyrflOQFc http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-economist-explains-the-gender-wage-gap-2016-3 |
The point is that jobs mostly filled in by women (the care sector for example) gets paid less then sectors mostly filled in by men (engineering for example). Women who do work in engineering jobs generally do not get as high up as their male counterparts (even more disproportionally as the amount of women working in these sectors). Female CEO's are often not paid as much as their male counterparts (but since a company usually has one CEO at a time, it isn't as easy to make a comparison, but a good recent example is AMD where Rory Read got paid more then the current CEO Lisa Su).
Since women still take up maternal and household work (more so then men) in this day and age, a larger percentage of women work part time. Part time and flexible work more often pays less then a fulltime (usually less per hour as well).
I can give you a source, but it's in Dutch, so I don't know if you'll be able to read it.
http://pvda.be/sites/default/files/documents/Program/PVDA/goleft13gender_0.pdf
It's from the study service of the Workers Party of Belgium (note that not everything they talk about is applicable in the USA)
