Concerned about the gender pay gap? Well are you?

[Anaxagoras]

Charts showing the main reason for the gender wage gap:

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/19/17018380/ ... re-penalty

It's sort of a "duh" thing, except for a small percentage of households that choose to have a stay-at-home dad and let mom be the main breadwinner. That's not what most women are really looking for in a husband.

It’s not totally clear why, for example, Danish women still take the vast majority of parental leave that could be used by either parent.

Well, I think I know why that is, but they seem to think it's a mystery.

I'm guessing you mean breast feeding but there is nothing preventing a man from getting hormone treatments and taking on that responsibility.

If I'm reading those charts correctly, it implies that women without children have a higher earning potential than men, +4 and +2 respectively.

I think it goes beyond breastfeeding. Women are just naturally better suited to care for young children (on average of course). 94% of people who work in child day care services are women. But not because they breastfeed other people's kids. So while that's not insignificant, it's certainly not the only reason.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm

(Maybe they should bring back "wet nurse" as a job? Would there be a market for that? )

[Giz]

Charts showing the main reason for the gender wage gap:

https://www.vox.com/2018/2/19/17018380/ ... re-penalty

It's sort of a "duh" thing, except for a small percentage of households that choose to have a stay-at-home dad and let mom be the main breadwinner. That's not what most women are really looking for in a husband.

It’s not totally clear why, for example, Danish women still take the vast majority of parental leave that could be used by either parent.

Well, I think I know why that is, but they seem to think it's a mystery.

I'm guessing you mean breast feeding but there is nothing preventing a man from getting hormone treatments and taking on that responsibility.

If I'm reading those charts correctly, it implies that women without children have a higher earning potential than men, +4 and +2 respectively.

I think it goes beyond breastfeeding. Women are just naturally better suited to care for young children (on average of course). 94% of people who work in child day care services are women. But not because they breastfeed other people's kids. So while that's not insignificant, it's certainly not the only reason.

https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat18.htm

(Maybe they should bring back "wet nurse" as a job? Would there be a market for that? )

Whoah, Whoah, whoah, are we talking average job preferences at the group level? I thought that, after Damore got fired, everyone had gotten the memo that was sexist?

[Skeeve]

The “Uber” pay gap? The feminists aren’t going to like the answer
Short version, male Uber drives go faster, ergo, move more customers, ergo, earn more money per hour than female Uber drivers.
Or put another way, women drive slower than men in general....

...
The Pay Gap has been debunked all kinds of times – that 77% is merely a talking point by lazy Leftists.

...former Presidents, and children feminists of all ages.

Spoiler:

[Giz]

From a UK perspective (very similar gap to the USA):

“The hourly average pay gap on the government’s portal does not compare the earnings of a man and a woman doing the same job. Here, the gap has narrowed significantly in recent years, particularly for younger workers. Women between the ages of 22 and 29, in fact, out-earn their male counterparts, and it is only in later decades that the traditional gap starts to widen.”

https://ig.ft.com/gender-pay-gap-UK/

[Abdul Alhazred]

Wait a minute.

Does that mean women are safer drivers?

One more sexist stereotype bites the dust.

[Anaxagoras]

Wait a minute.

Does that mean women are safer drivers?

One more sexist stereotype bites the dust.

Insurance companies have known that for a long time.

[Witness]

Insurance companies have known that for a long time.

I read (a looooooong time ago) that women had slightly more accidents than men, but most were non-serious.

[Anaxagoras]

Insurance companies have known that for a long time.

I read (a looooooong time ago) that women had slightly more accidents than men, but most were non-serious.

That may be true. In aggregate, the accidents caused by women cost the insurance companies less money, so they tend to have lower insurance premiums.