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> You can't just "replace men with women" though Indeed. I was just pointing out why the argument was broken. The lack of symmetry in the workforce would also
by lucozade 8y ago
> You can't just "replace men with women" though
Indeed. I was just pointing out why the argument was broken. The lack of symmetry in the workforce would also mean that that's not a way to reduce the pay gap even without the assumption of a reducing wage bill.
> Men also take less vacation than women
Are you sure? Men are statistically likely to take more of their vacation time (in the US at least) than women. If you are correct that implies that men get more vacation time than women but I'm not sure that that's correct.
- belorn 8y agoTaking the first hit on google, men work 42 min more per day when taking into consideration aspects like vacation and sick days. Every second week that almost translate to an whole additional day in difference. "among full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week), men worked more per day than women—8.4 hours, compared with 7.9 hours. (See table 4.)" https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf The questions we should ask our self is what are the incentives. How does wages, promotions, social status, health, happiness, children and social support look for men who is in the 50% that work longest vs those men who are in the 50% fewest hours at work. Then we do the same question for women.
- rhacker 8y agoYes, but about 3 hours of each day that man is reading HN, so I think they're actually working less time. I think they might be posturing longer hours maybe?