A New York Times front page headline today tells us that “For Young Earners in Big City, Gap Shifts in Women’s Favor.” The big surprise? New York City women between 21 and 30 working full-time made 117% of men’s wages. Everyone is wondering why. Here’s why, for starters…
When I did the research for Why Men Earn More (AMACOM) in 2005, I discovered that nationwide never-married women who had never had children earned 117% of the wages of never-married men who had never had children. New York City women in their twenties are less likely to have married or had children than women in their twenties who live in suburban and rural areas. The overall pay gap with men earning more is not about discrimination; it is mostly about the division of labor once children arrive.
The usual men-earn-more pay gap is also about trade-offs. The road to high pay is a toll road. On average, men are more willing to pay the tolls of the more hazardous jobs (accounting for 94% of workplace deaths), to work on commission, relocate overseas, travel overnight and travel weekends (approximately 90% of the most frequent flyers are men), work late nights and night shifts, work weekends, intensify their work commitment during child-raising years, work in engineering, computer sciences, technology and the hard sciences where the supply doesn’t match the demand, and do all of the twenty-five most important trade-offs that on average lead to men earning more.
The good news is that any woman can learn to out-earn men should she be willing to make more of the twenty-five trade-offs than the average man makes.
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scottkirk said,
Youre book “the myth of male power “saved my life!! thank you sir for being bold enough to stand firmly in the face of the feminist juggernaut, and not flinch!!!
August 4, 2007 at 12:14 am
scottkirk said,
August 4, 2007 at 12:33 am
Joi said,
August 4, 2007 at 2:36 am
DaPoet said,
On the other hand the growing earning power of women lies more in the fact that more and more companies today are being forced to diversify their labor forces, as well as to promote women and other minority groups into higher paying jobs wether they are more or just as qualified or not as their white male counterparts, in order to avoid expensive legal wrangling in court due to false accusations of sexual and labor discrimination…
While black females are known as a twofer because hiring one over a more qualified male wether black or white allows the company to show that it is dedicated to following the dictates of the feminist adgenda and keep the EOC off their backs and their corporate bank accounts…Which means that it is the black female who has benefited more from the civil rights movement then her brothers and of course these women are averse to marrying a black male who doesn’t earn more than she does…
August 4, 2007 at 5:00 am
amfortas said,
August 4, 2007 at 5:56 am
mruffolo said,
Which jobs do women earn 117% compared to men’s 100%? Does the study compare apples to apples, for example, a woman telephone worker to a male telephone worker and a woman sewer worker to a male sewer worker and a woman mover to a male mover (mover of furniture to a new home)?
August 4, 2007 at 8:56 am
Dittohd said,
August 4, 2007 at 10:50 am
Virtue said,
August 4, 2007 at 4:08 pm
WLS said,
Just as demand has for several decades declined in manufacturing, occupations based on the `hard sciences’ increasingly face bleaker outlooks, while opportunities are more abundant in areas like marketing, advertising, and PR, which require more rhetorical skills, or in categories not requiring post-secondary education.
August 4, 2007 at 8:31 pm
DaPoet said,
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Economially Successful But Biological Failures
Once again women are whining about just how
unfair life is instead of taking responsibility for
the consequences of their own choices. Blaming
any and every one else or thing but especially men
for their having missed the boat on having a baby
before their fertility wanes and finely goes kaput.
Even as little ago as twenty years I myself was
well aware that the average woman had a
biological clock. There were reports in the news
that informed women that if they waited until
their thirties to have a child. That the risk of
having a genetically deformed child went up
dramatically. While waiting until the age of
thirty-five meant that only a lucky few women
with the help of fertility drugs would actually
conceive and give birth.
Unfortunately the women that I grew up with and
graduated from high school with. Have now
discovered to their utter dismay that because they
believed the lies of the feminists they will never be
able to have children.
Ever since its inception feminism has always
down played the role of a wife and mother. While
playing up those women who chose to put their
careers ahead of marriage and their families. Now
these women will pay a high price for listening
and heeding to the bad advice feminists have been
touting for so long.
For many women who are considered a financial
success are now so old that they aren’t considered
good candidates for marriage. Nor will they ever
be able to have children unless they are willing to
use a donated egg from another woman. Because
once a woman reaches her forties half or more of
her eggs are chromosomally defective.
Of course part of these women’s misperception
that they could expect to get pregnant well into
their forth and fifth decades. Lies with the news
media who while making a big deal of women who
did indeed become pregnant late in life. Failed to
inform the public that these women became
pregnant by using a much younger woman’s egg.
Just a few weeks ago Leslie Stah profiled three
financially successful women describing them as
intelligent and attractive. Unfortunately all of
these women were in their late thirties and forties
and none were the least bit attractive. Indeed all
three were dumpy and matronly clearly not good
candidates for either marriage or motherhood.
In fact their intelligence must be questioned as
well since none of these women had been able to
attract a mate or bring a child into this world.
Especially since these women had either put off or
simply forgotten to marry and have children until
it was too late to do so.
Unfortunately their plight and that of their sisters
will only get worse over the next few decades.
Already studies are showing that men are
becoming increasing less interested in marriage
and having children. Because of the way men are
so often abused in the family court system. So
that many men are concluding that it is better to
stay single then to risk losing everything in a
divorce.
And who can really blame them when even I as the
father of a twenty-three year old son can’t advise
him to get married with a clear conscience. Yet
women will and do blame men for abandoning
them when it is these very same women who have
caused their own problems.
To these women I say it’s your own fault that you
are a financial success but a biological failure. So
stop whining and take a good look at yourselves
in the mirror and change before insisting on and
demanding that men change in order to please
you.
Copyright…DaPoet…August 5, 2007
August 5, 2007 at 6:11 am
Dittohd said,
>throughout the western world each and every country that has embraced feminism has seen their fertility rates sharply decline well below the replacement level of their current populations
I can’t stand feminism as much or more than anyone else on this site, but I’m not sure we can blame the feminists solely for the decrease in fertility rates throughout the world.
First of all, the last I looked, the U.S.’ replacement rates haven’t yet dipped below the 2.1 rate required to maintain current population numbers. Of course, maybe those numbers are being fudged as so many others are once the feminists get their hands on them. I’d like to see what they were here 40 years ago.
As far as Japan, my wife is Japanese and I’ve spent about 9 years in Japan on and off and my impression was that they’re lowered fertility was due to the dissatisfaction of women. Children in Japan are very expensive to support through school because competition for entrance into good colleges is fierce. The Japanese people put such a high value on education and a large number, as a result, feel the need to put their children into supplemental schooling to help them do exceptionally well, which is expensive. Also, because in Japan, a majority of men are expected to stay very late both at the office and also socializing together with their fellow workers at night for the purpose of camaraderie, women are tired of shouldering all the responsibility for their children’s upbringing. How much of this is feminist propaganda? Maybe some. Maybe not. But from what I’ve seen, women aren’t feminized in Japan anything like here in the states.
Also, I seem to remember articles a while back about declining sperm counts in men throughout the world.
Furthermore, I suspect that declining fertility rates are probably the case in many countries that have not yet bought into feminism. Am I wrong on this?
At any rate, the fault of the declining fertility rates throughout the world, I suspect, is a lot more complicated than just feminism. I’m sure your explanation is a contributing factor to the problem, but I think it’s one factor among several that we need to look at and work on.
August 5, 2007 at 10:00 am
Dittohd said,
August 5, 2007 at 10:07 am
Dittohd said,
August 5, 2007 at 10:16 am
Dittohd said,
August 5, 2007 at 10:17 am
WLS said,
It’s true that economically developed countries usually have had declining birthrates, but most haven’t had income equality or women exceeding men economically.
If it wasn’t for immigration, the US population would have declined over the past 30 years. (Resident Hispanics provide a small positive population growth; otherwise it would be negative. The vast bulk of the growth is the influx across the borders.)
August 5, 2007 at 10:35 am
DaPoet said,
Here in the states the fertility rate for whites is hovering at around the replacement rate while blacks and hispanics are growing…Thanks to immigration and higher minority birthrates by 2050 it is projected that together blacks and hispanics will be just above 50% of the total population…If this trend continues one can expect the political power of the white race to erode to the point of non exsistence by the beginning of the next century…And future historians will peg the rise of gender feminism in the 1960’s as the beginning of the end of the white race here in america…
Dittohd I remember watching a report on the rise of the feminist movement in Italy and the laws and policies that the feminists were demanding…Then within just a few years I watched another news report on the falling birthrates in Italy and the rise of the mommas boy who didn’t get married until his forties…Putting these two stories together I was able to reason from the cause to the effect which is of course feminism…
So in answer to your question: Yes it is the fault of the feminists…
August 5, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Dittohd said,
>If it wasn’t for immigration, the US population would have declined over the past 30 years. (Resident Hispanics provide a small positive population growth; otherwise it would be negative. The vast bulk of the growth is the influx across the borders.)
I believe you’re right on that point, in spades. I’m sure that our representatives in Congress are well aware of this and it’s the reason we are having so much trouble getting them to close up our borders. Fewer taxpayers means less money for them to spend. And if the influx is uneducated, all the better. The more they’ll depend on big government to get by in life.
August 6, 2007 at 9:10 am
mruffolo said,
If the birth rate is 1, that is, for two parents, one child is born. When the parents die, one parent is replaced. In this situation, without immigration, after a few generations, the country’s population would be halved.
Reducing a country’s population is dangerous for business and government, because there would be fewer customers and tax-payers.
Feminism aborts (kills developing children) and they have fewer children (about 1, 2 or 3 kids). Without immigration, feminism puts America at risk for growth and stability.
August 6, 2007 at 9:29 am