A scientific perspective on the Patriarchy: The gender pay gap

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-03 19:14:48 | Updated at 2024-10-06 22:44:38 3 days ago

A scientific perspective on the Patriarchy: The gender pay gap
Skeptic ^ | Marc Defant

Posted on 10/03/2024 11:51:09 AM PDT by anthropocene_x

Countering the patriarchy argument, an extraordinary and remarkable natural experiment that demonstrates the lack of discrimination in the differences in pay between men and women was conducted by researchers at Stanford University using data from over one million Uber drivers.

The results of the study show unequivocally that the “entire gap” can be explained by factors unrelated to discrimination:

The Stanford team concludes: "Even in the absence of discrimination and in flexible labor markets, women’s relatively high opportunity cost of non-paid work time and gender-based differences in preferences and constraints can sustain a gender pay gap."

A study by two Harvard economists on bus and train operators produced similar results showing the pay gap is due to the differential choice preferences of men and women.

Economists at Cornell University recently completed two extremely detailed extensive reviews of the research literature demonstrating factors that influence the gender pay gap. A few of them are obvious. Gender differences in choice of college majors funnel women into lower paying careers. For example, women tend to avoid majoring in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs resulting in fewer women in these relatively high-paying careers. Women also tend to avoid jobs requiring extensive training specific to the company they are working for, i.e., training that does not help them with other companies.

But the largest single impact on the gender wage gap appears to be the difference in pay between the careers men and women choose. Companies women tend to gravitate toward are those that pay both men and women lower wages whereas men tend to be concentrated in firms that pay more to both men and women. Women may consciously be choosing companies that are less stressful and offer more flexible workhours, but pay less than those where greater demands are made

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: economy; jobs; woeness

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Long but thought-provoking article.

Today women outnumber men in colleges and are the primary breadearners in a large percentages of marriages. Male-advantaged jobs like manufacturing have been decimated and sent to China. The schooling system is designed to be more suited for women.

So, are policies mandating preferential advantages to women, and things like NSF funding for women in STEM, still justified in the year 2024? Maybe they were in the year 1970, but today?

If an Asian male and a white female apply for the same college program, the female is more likely to be admitted, all else being equal in their qualifications. Does this seem fair?

To: anthropocene_x

It also comes down to the work.

I mentor high school and college students looking to get into technology roles. While women outnumber the men 2:1 (easily), the women show a marked tendency toward roles with more flexibility. Since my focus is cybersecurity, when discussing the rigors of many cyber roles, women often show less interest versus, say, a coding job or IT admin roles.

Women also overwhelming target roles higher up the corporate ladder long term where younger men appreciate and gravitate toward “in the trenches” roles where they can bond with other men because IT work is still overwhelmingly male.

2 posted on 10/03/2024 12:04:16 PM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)

To: anthropocene_x

Thank you for using the word MALE for the asian guy in your post.

As for the article title...GENDER as it is used here is a manufactured word.

It is called SEX. Not gender.

God I hate the left.

And the idea of course is to feminize men in every facet of life.

It is why, I think, Trump is getting more black male votes and Hispanic votes than any R before him.

When i say Hispanic, I ream Americans with Hispanic ancestors.

I need to be careful with that. Sometimes I refer to myself as Italian...I am Far From.

I speak Italian and know the country well, but I am an American with Italian ancestry.

My great nephews and nieces, with names like Cole and Mandy are ONLY Americans :)

They’ll be using sauce from a jar :)

3 posted on 10/03/2024 12:05:14 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)

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