Happy Equal Pay Awareness Day to my Mistreated/Oppressed Facebook Female Foils and Friends! The 23% gap implies that women work an extra 68 days to earn the same pay as a man...But the numbers bandied about to make the claim of widespread discrimination are fundamentally misleading and economically illogical...Men are more likely to major in finance, accounting or engineering. And as the American Association of University Women reports, men are four times more likely to bargain over salaries once they enter the job market. Risk is another factor. Nearly all the most dangerous occupations, such as loggers or iron workers, are majority male and 92% of work-related deaths in 2012 were to men. Dangerous jobs tend to pay higher salaries to attract workers. Also: Males are more likely to pursue occupations where compensation is risky from year to year, such as law and finance. Research shows that average pay in such jobs is higher to compensate for that risk.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:52:49 +0000