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All the information we have is hourly wage, income, and job title. We can't know if a woman with the lower-paid job title of "Programmer Analyst" is doing the s
by lukeschlather 11y ago
All the information we have is hourly wage, income, and job title. We can't know if a woman with the lower-paid job title of "Programmer Analyst" is doing the same work as a man with a job title of "Senior Software Engineer."
The "same job" is a subjective distinction, so you can't say it's entirely false; it's really a matter of opinion.
- morgante 11y ago> The "same job" is a subjective distinction, so you can't say it's entirely false; it's really a matter of opinion. No, it's not. Certainly there are some distinctions at the margins, as you note. There are, however, some very clear distinctions. Women dominate elementary education, which I hope we can all agree is a very different job than programming (for example). To reiterate, I don't know whether these preferences are innate or learned. In fact, I suspect it's the latter. But we shouldn't ignore them_if women were in fact paid less for doing the exact same jobs, solution would actually be a lot easier.