Furthermore, when “single” people include people who have been married but then got divorced, some of the negative impacts on a woman’s human capital, such as lost career opportunities, interruptions, or even cessation of full-time employment, have already occurred. Thus, to control entirely for this, one must compare “women and men who were never married rather than simply single. When this was done, the results showed “women of this description earning MORE than men of the same description.” Another study supports this finding when looking at women who chose to pursue academia rather than become house wives. “As far back as 1969, academic women who had never married earned more than academic men who had never married.”
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:11:16 +0000
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