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People often think that controlling for the percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs that are women, which would reduce the gender pay gap one calculates, is not reasonab

• dataflow 4y ago
  I thought the gender pay gap was supposed to be about "when M and F take on the same job titles, on average M gets paid $X more than F"... was it not? Otherwise it sounds more like a "gender title gap" or "gender job disparity" or something like that, than a "gender pay gap".
  • zmgsabst 4y ago
    > gender pay gap was supposed to be about "when M and F take on the same job titles, on average M gets paid $X more than F"... was it not? It was not. The “gender pay gap” is comparing the average female pay to the average male pay, not comparing like for like. One of the main contributors to the purported pay gap is career choice — which is also captured in the BLS statistic that men are 92% of workplace deaths. Talking about a “pay gap” without discussing the “death gap” has always been dishonest.
  • kube-system 4y ago
    The widely cited 78 or 79 cents on the dollar figure does not take job choice into account. Adjusted for job title, it is 95 cents.