Senate Republicans block pay equity bill

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When you compare apples to apples, the so-called wage gap disappears. Young, childless, single urban women earn 8 percent more than their male counterparts. Women who have never had a child earn 113 percent of what men earn. Unmarried college-educated males between the ages of 40 and 64 earn nearly 15 percent less than their female counterparts.
making things up to try to distract women from saying, hey, Obama is burring our children in debt, destroying jobs, and stripping us of our freedom. Democrats think that women are dumb and can be fooled or bought off with $9 per month birth control.


1. A greater number of women than men work part time. Nearly 25% of all female workers are classified as part time, meaning less than 35 hours of work per week. Most people would agree that part time jobs do not carry the same wage levels that full time jobs do. Only 10% of all male employees are classified as part time.

As they get older, many women elect to work less so they can spend time with their children. A decade after graduation, 39 percent of women are out of the work force or working part time -- compared with only 3 percent of men. When these mothers return to full-time jobs, they naturally earn less than they would have if they had never left.

2. A greater number of women leave work to take care of their children often meaning large gaps in employment and less experience.

3. Women are far less likely to work overtime and value spending more time with their families. This not only means that they earn less because of working less overtime, but they are also less likely to get promoted or accept promotions that would require them to work more hours. Men are twice as likely to work over fifty hours a week than women. As promotions and raises tend to go to those who put in the most overtime this dramatically effects the disparity of wages between men and women.

4. Women are more likely to take jobs that have greater flexibility in hours.


5. A study of the job negotiations of graduating professional school students found that male students were eight times more likely to negotiate starting salaries and pay than female students. A survey by the same researchers found that more than twice as many women than men said they felt "a great deal of apprehension" about "negotiating". Some studies of simulated salary negotiations have also found that men on average negotiated more aggressively than women.

6. Men are more likely to prioritize jobs that make higher money, while women are more likely to gravitate towards jobs that they like better or have some other sort of fulfillment factor. Men are more likely to major in engineering, mathematics, and computer science in college. These overwhelmingly male-dominated majors are highly profitable. Conversely, the top college majors for women are education, English, and psychology. Women tend to be interested in the social sciences which normally pay less money. More women than men are enrolled in college and all of them are free to major in whatever they please.


Harvard economist Claudia Goldin if there is sufficient evidence to conclude that women experience systematic pay discrimination. "No," she replied. There are certainly instances of discrimination, she says, but most of the gap is the result of different choices. Other hard-to-measure factors, Goldin thinks, largely account for the remaining gap -- "probably not all, but most of it."