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> because they get paid less for the same work That's not true, women earn less than men overall because they choose to do different jobs.
by aianus 11y ago
> because they get paid less for the same work
That's not true, women earn less than men overall because they choose to do different jobs.
- Gibbon1 11y agoI've come around to an old critique I read thirty five years ago, which is women tend to do a lot of economically important yet uncompensated work; child rearing and house keeping. Something economists and policy makers tend to studiously ignore because you can't easily assign a dollar value to it or pin it to a particular quarters GDP.