What people miss about the gender wage gap

These statistics were proved not valid by AUS senators

Sounds to me that women want to work less hrs but get paid a higher wage

It’s not complicated…..hours on the job x rate of pay. One of them is different for the genders because the other one is literally already mandated by law to be the same.
I’ll let you geniuses catch up.

they dole out our little bis of joy. they even have the power to ration and control our hopes.

Clown world

Thank you for not blaming it on men.

This was 7 years ago. By now the wage gap myth has been busted. The last missing piece: Men are in average more willing to accept job the don´t like, but of course crave a compensation for doing it. Inequality only in outcome, not in opportunities. Women have the same options. insisting it´s existence has made a lot of harm to feminists credibility, unfortunately.

Nobady gets rewarded for working longer hours? 😂

I'm a bit late but knowing Vox's reputation now days I thought this will be a lot of bullocks but it was actually factual information. Good job Vox👍

It’s a capitalistic country miss? You get paid by how good you perform and what your job is.

I can make a statistic that shows it the other way around period I'm a construction worker and I'm definitely not making as much money as the women in Wall Street. Somebody help me

moral: don't have kid

What people are not aware of is that the wage gap isn't real.

No wage gap is very small its illegal

This has been debunked so many times now. A lot of Women work part time and that gets configured as a full time worker and plus they have children again missing time from work and that's still considered full time. I know so many women that just want to sit at home and do nothing, hold their husband hostage by telling them they will divorce and take 75% of everything he has. Plus women are schemers they take all your money slowly and move it to their mom's account then run up all the credit cards and after they do that then and only then do they want a divorce hoping to hook up with a new richer sugar daddy. I've seen it time and time again that's why men go marry in the Philippines cause those women are loyal and appreciate what their husband does. There's actually a women's group that is trying to stop men from marrying overseas cause they feel entitled to their wallets. It's sickening the way some women feel about men just another wallet. Not all women are the same but I find a lot are. My wife is the pure gold I wouldn't trade her for the world and she's no run of mill type, pure class loyal and loving, they just don't make them like they use to anymore.

ye unless there is a discrimnation. then idk why we should fix something that was not broken. women can have baby so unfortunately they dont have consistence input as man. Less input= less output idk what else to say.

100k after a year???

I make only $0.76 for every dollar I make. How can I close that wage gap?
Out of every 20 days I work, one day I work to pay for the military, 1.5 days I work to pay the Ponzi scheme that old people were promised, another 1.5 days I work to pay for healthcare for the old and poor, 1 day I work to pay for the interest on the debt that our government has created. Then the government finances another 2 days of my pay against my kids' future earnings. The only problem is that I have no kids.

Claudia Goldin just won the Nobel Prize in Economics on this same study.

If only feminism hadn't bullied women into believing that working for family who love you is demeaning - but working for corporations who couldn't care less about you is empowering.

It is almost as if men are outperforming women at work.

So why don't businesses just hire women only then? They would be saving money since women get paid less than men for the same work.

I think the "wage gap" and "glass ceiling" are mostly explained by the fact that men work more (hear me out.) Women are much better at finding a healthy work/life/family balance, and so are much less inclined to work 70 hour weeks, travel constantly, miss ballet recitals and soccer games etc, because women tend to prioritize their family and their own mental health (or at least tend not to sacrifice them for the sake of professional accomplishment.)

Men, on the other hand, will work themselves to absolute death, often to the detriment of themselves and their family in the pursuit of success, power, money, providing for their family, glory, achievement, etc.. And from an employer's standpoint, that's all they care about. They see the company man breaking his back to meet or surpass the company's goals, and so naturally, they pay these men more and promote them more often than the women who always leave by 5, don't pull all-nighters, and are less inclined to spend their lives on the road.

These are generalizations, and in the case of the men, it describes the most extreme cases. But those extreme cases, as well as the much more mild general tendencies of average men and women, are enough to account for pay differences in statistical data.

There is no pay gap

If the wage gap was true, companies would only hire woman so they could pay them less. I have asked lots of people I know and nobody can tell me of a company paying woman less because it’s also illegal. Im sure there is some outlier here and there is no apples to apples data on this.

Women don't want to work the long hours that men work. Women don't make the same choices when it comes to careers as men make. I know so many women who qualify as doctors, lawyers, accountants, architects, city planners, etc work hard for 10 or so years then get married and freely choose to stop working and have kids. They're sick of the long hours and the total commitment needed. Not criticizing them for that, it's freedom of choice but you need to train far more people in these fields to make up for the fact that women do this. One story from a hospital: an operation needed to be performed but couldn't go ahead because the anaesthetist was a woman and had to collect her kids from day care and her shift had ended anyway so she was going home. So someone missed out on their operation because she was 'inflexible' about her hours.

I sell burgers why don’t I get paid as much as Elon musk

I’m going to solve it really quick if a man works for nasa and a women works at a McDonald’s that’s not a gap the man is doing more work and imagine a women is a lawyer and a man is a waiter the women is getting more money because she is doing more work and that’s a called certain jobs pay better

Well these women made an average of nearly 2-3 times more in their first year of employment than the vast majority of persons and earned more than that vast majority will make in a singular year ever. I wonder if studies will be done that applies to a larger portion of population

I like how they act like it's a bad thing that women take on a disproportionate amount of caring for their children.😂

summary, the wage gap is not a thing, don't use that and say men oppress women.
As a matter a fact it is the feminist women that oppress both men and majority of women.

wage gap??? whats that???it doesnt exist

My two brothers had the same job and one of my brothers didn’t work for half the year. They had the same job yet at to end of the year different yearly salaries? don’t get it! It’s so unfair they do the same job but one gets paid more then the other?

Taking care of kids and doing domestic duties is called being a mother and a wife.

Male’s are also more likely to take risks. Greater the risks greater the reward. So males are more likely to work longer hours, move to a workplace with higher pay, move to a position with a higher pay, more likely to ask for higher salary.

Pfft. As the question goes, if women get paid so much less, why do companies even hire men to begin with? Pointless video.

You can't fix discrimination with more discrimination.

Men and women are different ... please stop playing God and trying to engineer equality between groups.

“Women earn less, because they deserve less”

Why don’t corporations hire only women if they get paid less? If they hired strictly women, they would be making more money if the pay gap exists, and they would be praised for supporting women.

So in that case has there been a decrease in the wage gap since the covid lockdowns and the working from home trend?

There is no way a man in power would hire other men who are less competent than women.

If women were cheaper to hire and they do just as good as a job as men, then any smart man would just hire only women.

who asked

Why is it an issue? Why do we need to close the gap? Why can’t you let nature do it’s thing? It’s a free world

guys 60% less of 400k is not 250k. no wonder u get paid less.

If men got payed more than women for the same job and same work, companies would be employing exclusive women because capitalism is a thing, yet this doesn’t happen, curious.

Women in their 20s make more than men of the same age. It’s only mid 30s the 40s that men pass them up. That has everything to do with career choices. Engineers, lawyers and business owners make more money than caregivers, kindergarten teachers and beauticians. Also, women are more likely to cut back on hours or pause their careers when they have children. Men will tend to pick up more hours when that happens. Those extra hours and extra years of work will ultimately lead to future promotions. In any case it doesn’t matter who makes the money. Men tend to spend the vast majority of their wealth on women and what they want. Women have 85% of the spending power in the United States. There is a minor degree of inequality and discrimination against women in the US. but compared to the 3rd world it doesn’t exist.