{"id":934,"date":"2012-04-27T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=934"},"modified":"2012-04-27T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:42:46","slug":"it-seems-kinda-obvious-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/04\/27\/it-seems-kinda-obvious-now\/","title":{"rendered":"It seems kinda obvious now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kay Hymowitz: Why Women Make Less Than Men<br \/>\nIn studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can&#8217;t explain the disparity. Women earn less because they work fewer hours.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303592404577361883019414296.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303592404577361883019414296.html?mod=googlenews_wsj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, duh!  Women (in general) tend to work fewer hours than men once they start to bear and raise children, so if women work 23% fewer hours then that would exactly explain their being paid at 77% of the rate of men.  Now, I got no idea if women do indeed work that many fewer hours on a weekly or annual basis (I haven&#8217;t observed that in the women I have worked with), but I suspect that on a life-time basis there might be some solid bias going on.  Men just don&#8217;t have to carry a child around for 9 months to become fathers (it is _considerably_ less work that that!) and I am always amazed (bordering on shock) at the women late in their third trimester still getting about as if nothing untoward was going on.  Heck, I probably carry less weight than they do and I am barely up for the activity I see so many engaged in!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I strongly suspect there remains a significant bias that is leading women to have lesser wages (on average) than men.  I think there is a substantial cultural element involved, but I also think women (in general) are less aggressive about maximizing income and thus are less likely to insist on top pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kay Hymowitz: Why Women Make Less Than Men In studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can&#8217;t explain the disparity. Women earn less because they work fewer hours. http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303592404577361883019414296.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Well, duh! Women (in general) tend to work fewer hours than men once they start to bear and raise children, so if women work 23% &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/04\/27\/it-seems-kinda-obvious-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It seems kinda obvious now&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}