Doesn’t exist. If it does, it’s so small it’s nearly insignificant, and is not based on discrimination.
Sources:
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- Pocketbook Power (2004) by Bernice Kanner
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The only chairwoman in the FTSE 100 index of biggest British companies (Alison Carnwath), when asked about government efforts to force companies to make at least 25% of board members female, said: “there’s no real evidence to suggest women being on a board makes the companies any better – what we’re doing here is forcing an experiment.” Clodagh Hayes, a corporate partner at law firm Linklaters, has a similar point of view. She says "There needs to be a change of mindset so that other people outside of [an appointment panel] should consider people beyond their narrow field of vision. At the same time, it is up to women to push themselves and not wait around for people to put them forward." (source for both quotes here)
This was further supported in the book “Why Men Earn More” by Warren Farrell, Ph.D. (the only man to have been elected three times to the National Organization for Women's New York board of directors) who examined 25 career/life choices men and women make (hours, commute times, etc.) that lead to men earning more and women having more balanced lives, and that showed how men in surveys prioritize money while women prioritize flexibility, shorter hours, shorter commutes, less physical risk and other factors conducive to their choice to be primary parents, an option men still largely don’t have. This is part of why never-married childless women outearn their male counterparts, and female corporate directors now outearn their male counterparts.
Farrell also lists dozens of careers, including fields of science, where women outearn men. Women simply have more options than men to be primary parents (likely due to sexism in court via things like the Tender Years Doctrine, since custody is awarded to women almost 85% of the time), and many of them exercise that option rather than work long, stressful hours. That is why 57% of female graduates of Stanford and Harvard left the workforce within 15 years of entry into the workforce. There’s a federal financial incentive to give custody to women instead of men, regardless of which parent would be the better caretaker. It's fairly well-documented that parents have preferences, men are more likely to prefer full-time work, and men take more dangerous jobs.
There's also a 7-part series on Youtube about this, given by Dr. Warren Farrell at the Cato institute. (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven)
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The most important point is that the Equal Pay Act of 1963 makes sex discrimination illegal when it comes to wages in the USA.
Men also statistically take more dangerous blue-collar jobs (they are 93% of workplace deaths and accidents), are more likely to demand a pay raise from their boss, and work more hours than women overall.
http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0004.pdf
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
Women also control more wealth than men, get more degrees, and as a whole are becoming richer than men. http://www.wlp.givingto.vt.edu/wealth/
A 7-part documentary called “Hjernevask" looked into "gender inequality" (the first part is titled The Gender Equality Paradox) in Norway and found that many so-called inequalities are due to choice and/or biological differences between the sexes, rather than sexism. Other research adds to this, and finds that the USA is actually way ahead of Nordic countries in some forms of gender equality.
Women earn less pay than men even when women set the pay.
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The Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) did a report on the Canadian wage gap and found some interesting information. Namely, women who did home-related activities on their own time (caring for an elderly relative, keeping house, child care, etc.) were all lumped in with those who were hired to do those tasks. So should a woman choose to be a stay-at-home mother, or report that she cares for relatives, the Wage Gap statisticians wrongfully list her as an unpaid housekeeper / child care worker / babysitter - thereby lowering the average pay for women. The same math gymnastics are not applied to men that choose to be stay-at-home fathers.
So when a report comes out which says that Canada has a pay gap of 20%, the numbers should be questioned, especially since they include facts like "25% of women work in part-time positions, compared with just 6% of men" - which obviously impacts how much overall money men and women make, and detracts from the validity of the "wage gap" argument. Total pay cannot be compared to individual wages. A pay gap and a wage gap are two different things, despite some people using the terms interchangeably. If only 65% of women are working and a quarter of those women work part time, you're obviously going to get an average wage that's smaller than a man's average wage, because part-time work usually pays less than full-time work. When you check for the most recent OECD statistics, the USA is #7 for inequality. The pay gap is listed as 19%, contradicting the long-running myth that women in the US make 30% less than men. But the most reasonable of the wage gap proponents believe the USA's gap is around 4-7% and can't attribute the cause. Canada's wage gap is listed as just over 10% according to their own statistics.
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Some of these links were taken from posts made by Tumblr users. References, in alphabetical order: AFPE, DNF, hagakura, just-smith, logicd, oratorasaurus, permutationofninjas. Most links have been fact-checked and fixed/removed if broken.
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