There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap
In a 2010 study of single, childless urban workers between the ages of 22 and 30, the research firm Reach Advisors found that women earned an average of 8% more than their male counterparts.
Men have been hit harder by this recession because they tend to work in fields like construction, manufacturing and trucking, which are disproportionately affected by bad economic conditions. Women cluster in more insulated occupations, such as teaching, health care and service industries.
Yet if you can accept that the job choices of men and women lead to different unemployment rates, then you shouldn’t be surprised by other differences—like differences in average pay.
So … single, childless urban workers … between 22 and 30 … women earn 8% more than men. Not less. MORE.
This is interesting, no?
Also: can we call off the dogs on the whole “women are oppressed” thing now?
