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Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average
Can we stop with this already? These numbers are less than meaningless. What information do you glean from comparing the mean wages of men and women?
The adjusted pay gap is about .99 to every $1.00. You can hope to make meaningful change unless you understand the problem.
It’s a narrative that feeds a culture war. It diverts away from the actual wage gap problem, and that’s working class vs the elite.
Hah even with a woman winning the the Nobel prize for showing it is false the pay gap nonsense persists.
The hardest people to teach statistics to are feminists.
Unsurprising there hasn't been much change when their survey methodology doesn't capture most of the relevant data.
From interviews and citations by female academics and economists who study and write on it, the Freakonomics podcast hosts interview these experts on why the often quoted stat of national mean is an oversimplification of a complex issue. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap/
Just like the commonly quoted unemployment statistic is a poor measure of employment in the country, a simple national mean leaves out almost all meaningful analysis, and actual deliberate or systematic pay discrimination is much more rare than headlines would have you believe.
Ew what's with the MRAs in the comments