Men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour week earned 88% of male earnings.
Then there is the issue of marriage and children. The BLS (US Bureau of Labor) reports that single women who have never married earned 96% of men’s earnings in 2012.
The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market, so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males.
Mark Perry and Andrew Biggs – American Enterprise Institute
Nonanonymous
April 10, 2014 10:34 am
Would anyone be bitching if single women who never married earned 104% of men’s earning in 2012? You betcha!
Racists and bigots won’t be happy until (angry) white men are on the bottom of the pile. Good luck with that!
Equal work for equal pay. These deniers are only fighting for increasingly scarce resources. What ever happened with being thankful for even having a job?
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,” (Colossians 3:23 ESV)
TeresaE
April 10, 2014 10:55 am
Once again this has nothing to do with said “problem,” and everything to do with another bureaucracy being carte blanche to the private books of the few remaining businesses in this country.
In all my years working, I have NEVER been paid less than a man doing the same job. Generally, I make more. And I was a working, single, mother.
Of course, on average, men make more. As a manager, I can tell you, they usually work more!
Oh wait, truth, not allowed, sorry.
All hail Ob ama, righter of wrongs, fixer of not-broken, master of us all.
Persnickety
April 10, 2014 12:14 pm
@Teresa:
Shut up and get with the pogrom.
Women should know their place – blindly following whatever orders Obama and his liberal minions shout at them.
Men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour week earned 88% of male earnings.
Then there is the issue of marriage and children. The BLS (US Bureau of Labor) reports that single women who have never married earned 96% of men’s earnings in 2012.
The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market, so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males.
Mark Perry and Andrew Biggs – American Enterprise Institute
Would anyone be bitching if single women who never married earned 104% of men’s earning in 2012? You betcha!
Racists and bigots won’t be happy until (angry) white men are on the bottom of the pile. Good luck with that!
Equal work for equal pay. These deniers are only fighting for increasingly scarce resources. What ever happened with being thankful for even having a job?
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,” (Colossians 3:23 ESV)
Once again this has nothing to do with said “problem,” and everything to do with another bureaucracy being carte blanche to the private books of the few remaining businesses in this country.
In all my years working, I have NEVER been paid less than a man doing the same job. Generally, I make more. And I was a working, single, mother.
Of course, on average, men make more. As a manager, I can tell you, they usually work more!
Oh wait, truth, not allowed, sorry.
All hail Ob ama, righter of wrongs, fixer of not-broken, master of us all.
@Teresa:
Shut up and get with the pogrom.
Women should know their place – blindly following whatever orders Obama and his liberal minions shout at them.
LIBERALISM IS GOD! ALL HAIL LIBERALISM!
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