Do Women Earn Less than Men?

Are women discriminated against in the workplace? Looking at the data, women on average earn an annual wage that is approximately 75% that of men, which many people believe is the result of discrimination. However, when Prof. Steve Horwitz analyzes the data more closely, he finds that women make certain choices, such as career selection and raising children, which tend to result in lower wages than men. These choices could be the result of personal preferences or sexist cultural expectations for women's work, though the relative influence of these two factors remains unclear.

More Information:

Cities Where Women Outearn Male Counterparts: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/0...

An Analysis of Reasons for the Disparity in Wages Between Men and Women: http://www.consad.com/content/reports...

Diana Furchtgott-Roth's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee in 2010: http://jec.senate.gov/public/index.cf...

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[Johnnie Blotus]

Yes, the truth is misleading. Only feminist lies can be trusted.

[DaCanadianIdiot]

he spent most of the video explaining it -_- 0:53

[TehDarkPrince]

Maybe that would mean something to me, if I were an american. You're not doing very well for yourself. At this point, I can't help but think you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, let alone how to address my post in a thoughtful way.

[dm121984]

I don't recall him saying "feminine mentality" at all; he simply said women make different choices to men; which is true - the reasons for those choices can easily be argued to be sexist, i.e. (man)"Look after the baby, I have a career" - you seem to be projecting rather hard.

[scottadler]

You can literally force women to become engineers and mathematicians, but they won't like it, they won't put in the hours required to advance.

And, if statistics on women among the elites in technical fields are true, then we can assume that very few of these will ever exist. Only two percent of patents are issued to women, for example, and no woman has ever won the Fields Medal, the top award in the field. One study suggest a woman will earn a Fields once every 106 years.

[Thibault Serlet]

He says in the end of the video we need to convince men and women to change roles if you want wage equality... Moron...

[cpK054L]

tl;dr keep playing victim, because that's what most Americans do.

[TehDarkPrince]

Get back to me when you can make any of that coherent; all I hear is a wall of nonsequitious white noise. I don't know how welfare recipients or Israel has anything to do with the notion that people should be in control of their own lives and what they want to do, without being told that their chosen profession wasn't by their own volition, but coerced by the shadowy hand of some inevident, feminist shibboleth.

Good job answering my first post, you did way better than the first guy.

[cpK054L]

Yeah, sure.. I think you are missing the point of the comment :/

[666sigma]

The DNC still spits out this lying statistic as if it were true. And, of course, massive regulations and lawsuits are needed to correct it.

[sugarthief]

That's an interesting thought. There may be something to it. Someone should conduct a study and investigate.