Gender Wage Gap

Discussions center on the gender pay or wage gap, debating whether it's a myth due to unadjusted statistics (e.g., 77 cents on the dollar) or real due to factors like discrimination, promotions, hours worked, and career choices.

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HideousKojima May 27, 2020 View on HN

Another data point against the wage gap being a result of sexism

theseatoms Aug 4, 2015 View on HN

This is a contributor to the 'gender gap' in pay.

bussierem Oct 23, 2019 View on HN

From your own link[1]:>multiple studies find that pay rates between men and women varied by 5–6.6% or, women earning 94 cents to every dollar earned by their male counterparts. The remaining 6% of the gap has been speculated to originate from other unmeasured differences, a greater value placed on non-wage benefits, gender discrimination and a difference in willingness and/or skills to negotiate salaries.>The extent to which discrimination plays a role in explaining gender wage

ohyes Feb 13, 2018 View on HN

Your statement indicates you don’t understand the issue; women make less money than men overall.It’s not about same job pay (4% difference there), it’s about the glass ceiling. Women are less likely to get promoted to higher paying positions and because of that are defacto less qualified.So there can be an unfair pay gap without an obvious arbitrage situation.

colpabar Sep 30, 2021 View on HN

The article links to several sites that all make the same claim that "women only earn X cents for every dollar a man earns." My understanding is that this statistic is calculated by looking at all full-time working men and women across all jobs, and I just keep wondering why they never do any comparisons of men/women who do the same job? How is that a meaningful statistic?I think the people who wrote freakonomics did adjust for gender pay gaps between men/women who

nv-vn Sep 13, 2017 View on HN

While there's a small discrepancy, the "77 cents on the dollar" thing has been spread so much that I think it's important to put into context the real differences. I agree with your statement, but it's also true to say "the gender wage gap [as presented in media/by politicians] is a myth." To me, both sides seem at least slightly deceptive. Saying it's a myth outright makes people forget that there's a real issue, but saying that it exists outrig

dijit May 12, 2024 View on HN

> Gender pay gaps usually involve different wages for same workThat's not true, the oft-touted statistics are "77cents on the dollar", which is taking median women's earnings when employed with median men's earnings when employed, without regard to hours worked or responsibility[0].In fact when accounting for hours worked, years of experience, responsibility and before maternity age women typically out-earn men[1][2], though mostly in large urban environments.<p

dx87 Nov 3, 2020 View on HN

The "wage gap" is the one I see most often. It's presented in a way that makes it seem like women get paid significantly less than men, but in reality there's almost no gap when you account for the same position and experience level.

GuinansEyebrows Jul 17, 2025 View on HN

can we assume that the LLM has been trained on not just real-world data but also content that discusses things like gender/ethnic pay gaps, the causes thereof and ameliorative strategies? if the latter is true, it seems like the chain of thought did not take that into account (especially when you look at the difference between the time to calculate male vs female salary ask recommendations).

seansmccullough Feb 12, 2016 View on HN

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-...