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The reverse gender gap in part-time employment
04 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, gender wage gap, part-time work, reversing gender gap
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Close the Gender Pay Gap, Change the Way We Work – Claudia Goldin
19 Jul 2014 1 Comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, personnel economics Tags: Claudia Goldin, gender wage gap
President Obama’s persistent ’77-cent’ claim on the wage gap gets a new Pinocchio rating–updated
13 Apr 2014 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: gender wage gap, lies dam lies and statistics, obama
The fact checker at the Washington Post said:
Few experts dispute that there is a wage gap, but differences in the life choices of men and women — such as women tending to leave the workforce when they have children — make it difficult to make simple comparisons.
…From a political perspective, the Census Bureau’s 77-cent figure is golden. Unless women stop getting married and having children, and start abandoning careers in childhood education for naval architecture, this huge gap in wages will almost certainly persist. Democrats thus can keep bringing it up every two years.
…There appears to be some sort of wage gap and closing it is certainly a worthy goal. But it’s a bit rich for the president to repeatedly cite this statistic as an “embarrassment.” …The president must begin to acknowledge that “77 cents” does not begin to capture what is actually happening in the work force and society.
In premiere episode of ‘Factual Feminist’ Christina Sommers explains how the gender wage gap is based on bogus statistics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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