Reply #225: Once again, the GAO study accounted for career choices [View All]

[noamnety]

Yes it's a major factor. Eliminating that one factor is part of what reduces the REAL gap from 44% to the hypothetical gap of 21%.

The 21% pay gap is what remains after equalizing for that.

I have never seen a man so hell bent on disproving that women make less money than men. Listen, the reality is WORSE than the hypothetical. We are trying to get by on 16,000 REAL dollars to your $30,000 dollars. We cannot live on that amount, we cannot save for retirement on that amount, we have more years to live, statistically, and statistically, we end up doing it in more severe forms of poverty.

Women live in this country, and globally, in disproportionate numbers in poverty. You get that, right? Is there a purpose to denying it? Is there a purpose in refusing to acknowledge that discrimination plays a role in that?

Is there a purpose in refusing to acknowledge that this results in - statistically - men being born into relative privilege as a result of their gender?

I tried to use the word statistically a whole lot here, because apparently some people here are having trouble grasping the notion of statistics, and are either confusing statistics with stereotypes, or seem to feel that if THEY PERSONALLY did not fall exactly at the center of the bell curve, the entire curve no longer exists.