Income gap between gender

Mar 08, 2008 10:07

MSN is amusing, once you log out, they give you plenty of fun but usless articles to look at.

Being a woman doesn't pay - labour congress says men still make more

There were two times more men earning over $60,000 a year than women, and far more women than men worked at jobs that earned less than $35,000.

Sadly they never included the formula in the article, it really isn't that hard to understand. Imagine a whole report based on one(or few) formula(e). The biggest difference i have seen generally from the data i gathered is the education counts as a major reason in income difference. That is why when i read such reports it makes me ask one question.

Wouldn't it be easier to take two groups (male and female) and have everything be the same, education, experience, duration of working at that firm... and see if there is an income difference.

Sadly getting that data set would be expensive, hard, filled with subjective calls. Who is to say that your one year experience is the same as mine, when we learnt different things by working on the exact same project doing the exact same work. When i do my internship, i'll see if there is an income difference, but sadly the females hired are as secretaries and a few of them have better jobs.
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