Why do women earn so much less?

[Hell Awaits Us All]

I was looking at these stats and this is baffling to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States

Persons, age 25 or older with earnings
male - 39,000
female - 26,000

those with professional degree (25+)

male - 100,000
female - 66,000

any explanation for this outside of sexism?

 

[King Richard]

I believe wikipedia as much as I believe Dubya.

 

[Mort Divine]

Flexibility due to children. Men don't usually have nor want to change their schedules for their children, so they get more money to have a set schedule while women want the ability to take time off for their kids and they sacrifice money to do so.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

those type of stats have been reported millions of times by millions of different sources.

 

[Ender Rises]

Because they have no skills other than cleaning cooking and fucking.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Because they have no skills other than cleaning cooking and fucking.

susperia's reaction to this = extremely entertaining.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Because they're inferior.

 

[King Richard]

*duh dum tssssshhh*

Women have a brain 1/3 the size of a mans. It's science.

 

[Ender Rises]

susperia's reaction to this = extremely entertaining.

She'll understand that I'm kidding, or she'll bitch. I don't care.

 

[King Richard]

It's ok. You can say whatever you want, you're gay.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

christianity

 

[Ender Rises]

It's ok. You can say whatever you want, you're gay.

This is true. I don't need wimmen for a damn thing.

 

[Vossyrus]

Perhaps because males generally work in higher paying jobs, where as females are more reluctant to take up a more physical, trades jobs? Most females I know work in call centres, or are cashiers or service clerks or waitresses etc.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Perhaps because males generally work in higher paying jobs, where as females are more reluctant to take up a more physical, trades jobs? Most females I know work in call centres, or are cashiers or service clerks.

women doing exact same work in identical conditions as men still earn 70 cents to every dollar that a man makes.

 

[Vossyrus]

women doing exact same work in identical conditions as men still earn 70 cents to every dollar that a man makes.

Well I never actually read the article. Maybe I should?

Maybe they aren't as good as males then? I wouldn't expect a female to be as good in a manual labourer job as a male for example. I guess it depends, an in any case stats aren't that reliable since it is impossible to get a fully accurate picture. Though I don't doubt that sexism plays a tiny part.

 

[Hell Awaits Us All]

Well I never actually read the article. Maybe I should?

Maybe they aren't as good as males then? I wouldn't expect a female to be as good in a manual labourer job as a male for example. I guess it depends, an in any case stats aren't that reliable since it is impossible to get a fully accurate picture.

LOL manual labor is a shit job. We're talking about real jobs in the business world where gender should have absolute no determination on how much somebody gets paid, yet it (seemingly) does.

 

[Vossyrus]

LOL manual labor is a shit job. We're talking about real jobs in the business world where gender should have absolute no determination on how much somebody gets paid, yet it (seemingly) does.

Well some jobs in my area like working at the mines pay very very good, and I was also refering to jobs in trades which pay very good. But as I said I never read the article.

 

[Vossyrus]

If a woman actually gets hired in a manual labor job, she's most likely fairly well built and can do everything that is expected of that position. It really is almost entirely sexism.

I suppose you've got a point, but still, physical work comes more naturally to males than females. I've known some who have those kind of jobs and maybe aren't as capable as males, but I do think society is sexist in many ways.

 

[Vossyrus]

This is true. I don't need wimmen for a damn thing.

Wow, I can't really imagine a world without women. I honestly can't really relate to other guys as I am not "one of the guys" so to speak, and in fact I'd rather hangout with female friends than male friends.

 

[Evil?]

fag.