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Prominent labor economists (including raving feminists) have already explained 88 percent of the variation in income between men and women by factors other than gender.
Women tend to prefer jobs that are cleaner, less dangerous, more secure, involve less travel and less sales, i.e. they avoid jobs that pay more. They are less likely to be in a union and less willing to transfer jobs. They are also less aggressive in bargaining for higher wages. The flipside though is that female unemployment is lower than men and they suffer much fewer work related injuries and deaths.
Women have for several years outnumbered men in college which is one factor explaining the gap closing.
Affirmative action is another. I've witnessed right in front of my face women being selected over more qualified men and indeed positions created just to improve the female-male ratio in an academic department. Despite those built in advantages, they still have a national committee on the status of women in the economics profession.
Welcome to the oppressed class.
Nov 10, 2008, 9:44:00 PM