PapaJacky wrote:Forsher wrote:
Feminism complains about women not being paid as much. Often, they look at job locations not jobs. If most women are on the checkouts they'll have lower average pays because stacking shelves pays more, for example. This is really more a statistical thing that I wanted to point out. In fact, most people would make this error and I probably only identify it because I've had cause to sit down and think about it some more. This paragraph really exists to show you how easily one can create a passage that is critical of feminism. The bolded sentence exists to elevate me over the rest as I bother to point out that this is something feminists do but it is not a flaw of feminism. (In other words, bias is really easy to create.)
On a semi-related note; http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat39.pdf , women are being paid less as a cashier than men are
It's 'cause they're ugly.
Seriously, I'm not surprised. I've always wondered in a lot of these situations whether being more numerous means you'll get paid less. That said, I believe a common explanation is that women are more accepting of their pay packages (less likely to negotiate). I've also heard that men are more likely to exaggerate earnings in surveys than women but that was in a different context and I've never heard it as an explanation for the wage gap.
