Data extracted on 28 Jul 2016 05:17 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat via OECD Employment Outlook 2016.
Time spent in paid and unpaid work across the OECD by gender
30 Jul 2016 1 Comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, female labour force participation, household production, marital division of labour
Is academic philosophy a “safe space” for women?
23 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
% women age 25 to 54 working full-time in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark
11 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, part-time work, social insurance, taxation and labour supply
To account for full-time work being 35 hours per week in some countries but 40 hours others I have included both in the chart below. Not many Dutch women work full-time.
Data extracted on 11 Mar 2016 14:08 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Wage gaps by gender, race and ethnicity persist in the USA
03 Jul 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: employer discrimination, ethnic wage gap, gender wage gap, racial discrimination, racial wage gap
Work-life balance drives what is left of the gender wage gap
30 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, occupational choice
Generation Unbound – The drift into parenthood without marriage
26 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender Tags: economics of fertility, marriage and divorce, single parents
Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach: change “drifters” into “planners.”
Gender preferences for higher earnings vs. other job attributes
25 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Differences in raw gender wage gaps may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices made by both male and female workers.
@younglabournz @YoungGreensNZ @nleemariu forgot family planning empowers women on @BackBenchesTV
23 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
Control over the number and spacing of women was central to women’s liberation. Young Labour and the Wild Greens forgot that last night on the BackbencherTV show. Neither could handle the notion that people should wait until they can afford to have children before having them. This is an old working class value with which the Young Labour panel member completely disagreed.
The number of children and the spacing between their births has been a major driver of the gender wage gap for decades. Central to greater female participation in the workforce and society outside the home is smaller families.
Many woman put-off having children to their late 20s and early 30s so they could first consolidate their education and career.
Bryan Caplan argues that there is an undeserving poor if they fail to follow the following reasonable steps to avoid poverty and hardship:
- Work full-time, even if the best job you can get isn’t fun.
- Spend your money on food and shelter before getting cigarettes and cable TV.
- Use contraception if you can’t afford a child
Raising a child takes a lot of effort and a lot of money. One poor person rarely has enough resources to comfortably provide this combination of effort and money.
Young Labour in particular has forgotten the old working class value of being a responsible parent able to afford to raise your children and give them the best things in life.
Being a parent is hard work that requires a bit of discipline if child poverty is to be avoided through ill-considered choices and a lack of family planning.
Young Labour has forgotten the policy of the Labour Party on family planning
Labour believes that all individuals should have control over their own sexual and reproductive lives. An individual’s choice to determine the number and timing of one’s children cannot be compromised.
To ensure that all people can make free and informed choices about their future, Labour supports safe, affordable and universal access to contraception, sexual and reproductive services and information. Labour recognises all women have the right to make their own choices about their own bodies, and should have access to abortion services
New Zealand has a high rate of unplanned pregnancies, estimated at between 40% and 60% of all pregnancies. Labour’s health spokesperson, Annette King agrees that it is a problem and for too long people have avoided dealing with it.
The British motherhood pay penalty starts at about 29
17 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics
The asymmetric marriage premium and the motherhood penalty in the UK
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour supply, law and economics
Source: Trades Union Congress – The Pregnancy Test: Ending Discrimination at Work for New Mothers (2016).
Gender differences in jobs and occupations since 1960
07 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
A reversing gender gap in teenage misbehaving?
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender
The widening gender gap in the teenage Dunning-Kruger effect
05 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender, human capital
Too close to the truth for comfort
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of religion, gender, liberalism
HT: John Ansell
Dissenting opinion in the Fourth Circuit case on transgender students and restrooms
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, liberalism Tags: moral panic, political correctness, sex discrimination, social friction, transgender people
Until a few months ago, there is universal agreement particularly among women that men should not be allowed into female bathrooms and change rooms. There are relatively few transgender people according to New York at times estimates, and few had heard of them until recently to discriminate against them in long-standing bathroom arrangements.
This is not a case of sex discrimination. It is some people being rather unusual and not fitting into arrangements that suit everybody else. These arrangements regarding bathrooms, change rooms and privacy were crafted with absolutely no malice or hostility towards those who find them inconvenient such as transgender people. You just cannot please everybody.
There are certainly hostility and indeed violence against transgender people. That violence is by a minority full of hate looking for someone to hate on any criteria. There are some people are not nice and who take pleasure in being nasty and at times violent towards other people. That is separate from managing the long-standing human preference for bodily privacy.
Opposing discrimination is about telling people to stop being an arsehole. They have preferences about who they deal with that are appalling and mean. The segregation of bathrooms and changing rooms by sex is about a fundamental human desire for bodily privacy.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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