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Agree with you. A couple of examples of change in that area; Companies taking advantage by mothers who want to the workforce once their kids are in school by
by richmarr 10y ago
Agree with you.
A couple of examples of change in that area;
Companies taking advantage by mothers who want to the workforce once their kids are in school by offering flexible working.
Companies dropping their long-standing policies of hiring from specific schools or attainment levels. These policies are historically quite common in professional services firms, but heavily reduce the available talent pool (and thus the quality of hires, because schools and attainment levels are not strongly predictive of productivity).
- gspetr 10y agoWhen we bring parenthood into the picture I think this is confounding the results that the studies should account for, but in too many cases, they do not. Then the mainstream media and people championing social justice causes often take these results the wrong way (even if they do so for noble reasons) and run with it too far. I think we should compare never married men to never married women, otherwise I believe it to be disingenuous to make that wage gap argument based on gender. Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell argues that economic differences between working men and women are not generally due to employer discrimination, as is widely alleged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EK6Y1X_xa4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EK6Y1X_xa4
- richmarr 10y ago>... confounding the results that the studies should account for... You're absolutely right that studies should make sure to control for potentially important variables. I don't know which studies you referring to. Not a topic I've looked at. That said, criticising a second group of studies can't reasonably cast shade over the first group, if that was your implication.