Friday, April 08, 2022

Gender Wage Gap Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women

Recommendable! The so called gender wage gap is a fiction and an ideological term!

"... It ignores the fact that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2017, men worked an average of 8.05 hours in an average day compared to 7.24 hours for women. ...
And there are differences in the type of work men and women do, which bears on their earnings. BLS data shows that, in 2017, 94 percent of child day care services workers were female, the highest percentage of any category, and that the mean annual wage of childcare workers was $23,760. By contrast, just 2.9 percent of workers in logging were women, the lowest share of any category, and the mean annual wage here was $42,310. ...
They find that male train and bus drivers [of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), highly unionized and government run] worked about 83 percent more overtime than their female colleagues and were twice as likely to accept an overtime shift—which pays time-and-a-half—on short notice and that around twice as many women as men never took overtime. The male workers took 48 percent fewer unpaid hours off under the Family Medical Leave Act each year. Female workers were more likely to take less desirable routes if it meant working fewer nights, weekends, and holidays. ..."

Harvard Study: "Gender Wage Gap" Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women - Foundation for Economic Education 

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