Gender based pay gap greatest in more religious states.

[AtheistCrusader]

http://www.businessinsider.com/gender-pay-gap-affected-by-religiousness-of-state-2016-10

Go figure.

I eagerly await a tortured explanation as to why this isn't a religious thing at all.

[TheMastersNemesis]

1. Perfectly Understandable. Women Belong In The Home.

Women belong in the home with their litters of kids while their husband supports them with numerous jobs. He gets to call all the shots and pretty much owns his wife. She must always be ready to get screwed and must always obey every order. The bible says women are subjects of their man.

So if a woman is in the work place she cannot make enough money to support herself. She must have a man to help support her. That law is God's law.

[HAB911]

2. They watch more porn too

[tonyt53]

3. You can bet that the guys all knew who Jessica Drake was already! I mean that sincerely.

[whatthehey]

4. You know, it really probably isn't, at least directly

I'm hardly well-disposed to religiosity when it drives political behavior, but here it's probably a confounding variable. The kind of demographics who are the most religious are also the most conservative, authoritarian, and patriarchal. Any of these can, and probably all of them do, drive a devaluation of women especially in traditionally male roles such as breadwinner. Is religion the fundamental cause of conservativism, authoritarianism and patriarchy, or vice-versa for one or more of the others? That's a lot harder than the chicken or egg dilemma (which is actually pretty easy depending on how you define an egg.)

[Igel]

5. Hush. You're interfering with the belief that correlation must equal causation,

in the direction that we know it must go.

Next you'll be saying that the mantra of Post Hoc ergo Prompter Hoc isn't a statement of fact--that things aren't so because they follow what's seen.