That's extremely interesting. Please, tell me more. /s
Skelatron
Skelatron
I think it would help to alleviate the gap. It wouldn't solve it, but it would shrink it because part of the reason the gap exists is that women are way more likely to take extended amounts of time off when they have a kid. If men were given the option (and there was some amount of cultural shift that would make it…
LOL, okay.
Blah blah blah. When are you going to get the part about how porn is a big Jewish conspiracy to corrupt good Christian folk?
You're the one making the claim. If you want to be taken seriously then provide some evidence. My guess is that you're just trolling though.
Also, this is the second time in as many days that I've asked you to back up your supposedly scientific claims. Your silence on both requests is pretty damning.
That I agree with, but that's not what Rlk seems to be saying.
"as if the scientific literature on the subject didn't exist or something"
Yeah, it was meant for you. Sorry if it went overboard. It's just that I've had this conversation so many times with people who start off with a simple objection to the methodology, but then progress into complete denial about the gender wage gap being a problem at all, that I tend to pre-empt that sort of thing now.…
You're going to have to show me some evidence that those behaviors are somehow inherently "male".
Well that's discouraging. I guess just offering the option isn't enough; there needs to be a cultural shift to go along with it.
Ahhhh, okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah, doing it via a public program sounds like a solid idea.
It's used misleadingly sometimes, but it absolutely, most definitely exists.
Agreed that it's used misleadingly all the time and that it doesn't quite mean what it's often meant to imply.
Don't those two words mean pretty much the same thing?
This should seriously be a surprise to absolutely no one.
Aren't these figures only for single women though? As more of those women get married and have kids, don't you think that lead will shrink quite a bit? I don't have the link handy, but I remember reading that marriage tends to increase the man's income while reducing the woman's, on average.
I don't understand how you're reaching those conclusions. How would the size of the benefit depending on income be retrogressive? And how would it hurt people working on commission or by contract?
Here's an idea: Extend mandatory paid parental leave and do it in a way that allows new fathers to take just as much time, or more, than new mothers. That would go a very long way towards closing the gap on that 77 cents figure.