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If women really are a discount, why hire a man at all? That is the question I have never seen answered convincingly.
by jquery 17y ago
If women really are a discount, why hire a man at all? That is the question I have never seen answered convincingly.
- krschultz 17y agoI'm agreeing with you, I don't think the wage gap (today) is talking about two equally qualified people getting paid different amounts for the same job, although it does happen in some rare circumstances it doesn't account for a 20% difference. That is mostly related to personal decisions on what career to choose, work/life balance, etc.
- MichaelSalib 17y agoMaybe women have to settle for less because employers consistently underrate their competence. Since most employers want competent people, if they irrationally believe that women are less competent, they will be less likely to hire women, even at a discount. In general, statements of the form "but that's impossible since all people act as rational utility maximizing agents" demonstrate an ignorance of the many many studies showing that people do not act completely rationally pretty much all the time.