Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Yes and no.

For decades, the wage gap popular reporting has been overly simplified; male full time workers make significantly more than female full time workers, without noting that that male full time workers work more hours, have more experience, choose higher paying (and riskier) careers.

When you dig into the data, you find that the actual pay for men and women doing qualitatively and quantitatively the same work is essentially the same.

Now, it appears that in the big cities women full time workers are paid more than men. Unless the workplace behavior of the genders has changed radically, then this is a major change; they earn more despite having less experience and working fewer hours in traditionally female careers.

Cue the "well if the guys would stop being lazy slackers who only play video games 24x7" in 3...2...1

What's intriguing about that argument is how the same person making it can slip into a diatribe about the privilege that being a male member of the patriarchy confers without taking a breath.