A brand new study (5/15/2016) of global workforce trends has revealed some great new information about what we call "the gender pay gap". Most of the media has attributed this gap to men oppressing women via sexism and paying them less on purpose. The new study shows a different story:


http://info.haygroupupdate.com/rs/49...whitepaper.pdf

Quotes & Accessed from:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/15/gl...close-to-zero/

An article from the WSJ also had similar thoughts after conducting their own research into the matter (if you don't have a subscription you can't access the full article): https://twitter.com/WilcoxNMP/status/732901291685515269


What does ATRL think is at work here? Do you agree or disagree?

Another Emma Watson lie exposed. Those liberal feminists need to get their facts right.

But there is a gap in those professions when a woman does choose "higher-risk, higher-paying" roles.

They're comparing a male astronaut with a female childminder. Get it together.

Research, my arse.

Huh.

Citation needed. Most STEM fields actually offer women all kinds of perks just to join because women don't want those jobs or degrees (in the pursuit of "diversity advancement" women are courted into these fields in ways that men are not).

According to the study above, ALL women shall bare children and therefore receive maternity payments.

Yaaaay, aren't you SO pleased girls??? Have babies and you're fine!

so one study and suddenly there's pay equality between the sexes??????????????????

no thanks, i'll wait until Beyoncé confirms it

There's a reason why women have different "individual choices", lol.

From the study:

So, what happens to many women in their 30s that would cause them to fall behind men in pay (even though when they start off single and childless they outearn and out-educate men?) hmm

It's hardly an individual choice if two professionals have equal credentials but when they have children, one has to give their career up and the other doesn't, solely because one's a woman & the other is a man. I'm sincerely confused as to if you're naive, ignorant or trolling because even if the exact numbers of the wage gap are unclear, the glass ceiling is undeniably present. Look at our world leaders and CEOs. Almost entirely men, all because of antiquated stereotypes unfounded in biology. Equality isn't present. Stop.

I feel like equal pay is made such a huge deal among white feminists, but I never really hear them discussing much else about feminism. lol

"Solely" because she's a woman? It actually seems like it has nothing to do with that at all and the fact that she had a child and no longer works. That's a decision she makes. Men don't because they don't bare children (and the courts don't let them keep them). I'm certainly not the naive one.

Of course it's an individual choice. She chooses to have a child and wants to raise that kid. Ok great. That might mean you can't work a 40 hour+ work week like your husband or a single man can. That's not sexism. That's choice.

Guys stop feeding him. He just does **** like this when he gets bored of inciting in the election thread.

Is this a joke?!? YOU IDIOT

The U.S. is one of a PRECIOUS FEW nations in the world without paid maternity leave! It is gettin. RIDICULOUS and people STILL do not want to acknowledge what is right in front of them!

I agree with you here. Maternity leave should be expanded and paid in the USA. Being a mother (or father) at home is job worthy of that special recognition. However, lets not get confused about the thread topic here

The topic isn't about whether maternity leave should be available. The topic is about whether or not women make less money than men due to sexism or due to other factors. Not paying women maternity leave is not sexist to me. It just seems like businesses trying to cut costs and not pay what they don't have to. It's a market issue and it's correctable.

And if you were to have maternity leave in our countries that would be a special right given to women. Which is fine by me but should be recognized as such. What it allows is for women to have full-time family and full-time payment from work. This same thing is not awarded to men. Men sacrifice family time for work and there's no equivalent option like "paternity leave" to supplement that sacrifice (albeit making it no longer a sacrifice if you're still getting your cake and eating it too).

And I would venture to guess that with all the maternity leave payments going out to women that aggregate wage gap "77 cents on the dollar" would almost disappear. All that would be different now would be the careers men and women choose (and men tend to choose higher paying careers). You can't punish people for their choices in a free society.

Interesting. I've heard the gender pay gap isn't as extensive as it's made out to be, but this is the first time I'm seeing an actual study about it.

No shade, but I think you need to read the study a second time.