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That’s not what the data shows. Let’s call “easily outpacing” as earning at least 110% between medians. The metros where this happens are: Wenatchee, WA, Morgan
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
That’s not what the data shows. Let’s call “easily outpacing” as earning at least 110% between medians. The metros where this happens are: Wenatchee, WA, Morgantown, WV, Barnstable Town, MA, and Gainesville, FL. In every single other one, it’s either pretty close or below 100%.
Which is pretty heavily at odds with the “easily outpacing” statement.
- UncleMeat 5y agoYup this is one of those headlines that generates the opposite discussion of what the data actually shows. The conversation on this article will naturally be about how men are falling behind or about how feminism is outdated but the actual data in the article shows men outearning women in most metro areas (in some of them, by huge amounts) and women outearning men in some metro areas. The article shows men earning more than women. But the discussion is all based on the interpretation that women are now outearning men.
- tsol 5y agoIf the point is egalitarianism(which I believe is ostensibly the whole point), then both are wrong and need to change. We should be aiming for equal pay, rather than considering progress to be only when women outpace men
- mpweiher 5y agoNo, we should be aiming for people getting to make the tradeoffs they want when it comes to earnings and other life choices.
- UncleMeat 5y agoSure. But it is just interesting how "in a few small cases, women outperform men" is often considered a larger crisis than the multi-generational norm of men dominating various careers and fields.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoEgalitarianism would imply that 50% of metros have one outearning the other, as the differences would be noise. As opposed to the 91% of metros where men out earn women today in this age group.
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