Look, people, I can't stand the hypocritical "left" either (or the self-centered "right") but can we stop pretending that it's only liberals participating in bandwagon outrage culture? It might not be over the same things but I see the same kind of behavior across the board. Nor do people necessarily go into attack mode based entirely on party lines. I know some political fanatics think about nothing else but the average person isn't wired that way.
| Chrkeller said: In my personal experience the pay gap isn't a myth. I went to the same grad school, graduated the same time, had the exact same degree, ended up working in the exact same research group, doing the exact same work. I was making 30% more. We were the same age, both married, had kids.. Literally there was absolutely no difference between us. Except I made 30% more and was a male. Perhaps one would argue that is a one off, but it certainly seems questionable at the very least. |
While you're right in a lot of ways--there certainly are gaps within some industries--the gap he's talking about is a very specific situation where a very flawed methodology was used in order to make the gap seem wider. That is, ALL jobs were compared against ALL other jobs. Why is that incredibly misleading? Because career choices by women and men do not match 1:1. It's literally comparing apples to watermelons and then saying that it's not fair that one is bigger.
A waitress probably shouldn't make as much money as a coal miner so comparing the two makes little sense.
