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I'm not sure why you're being downvoted here. The reported pay difference is 4% more to men than women for identical roles at identical companies. The pay diff

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted here. The reported pay difference is 4% more to men than women for identical roles at identical companies. The pay difference grows to 7% for women in their mid 30s. Wealth compounds, and the increase in the gap over time is a double whammy. Women wind up significantly less wealthy than their male peers by the time they hit 35, for the same jobs. I don't know what's up with all the conspiratorial rejection of these basic stats. We all know very smart women, and we all know they're paid worse than their male colleagues. Surely, if it's right in front of your goddamned eyes, there's a problem!

gizmo686 8y ago
>I don't know what's up with all the conspiratorial rejection of these basic stats. That's an easy one. There is a massive political movement for solving the wage gap; and that political movement is overwhelming dominated by people who insist highly misleading statistics, and call out anyone who questions those statistics as sexist. This is why you don't want to lie in politics. Once people catch on, they won't believe the kernel of truth you were basing the lie on; they'll just assume your still lieing (which is objectivly closer to the truth than believing the original claims being made).
tomp 8y ago
> The reported pay difference is 4% more to men than women for identical roles at identical companies Do they take years of experience, days & hours worked, overtime and salary negotiation into account? The claim is, if controlling for industry/company/position brings down the gap to 4%, then adding more variables will likely bring it down to 0%.