On EqualPayDay, what is the real gender pay gap?
for every dollar earned by men in this profession). If there were absolutely no bias in our society, we wouldn’t see these gender differences in occupation choice.Women are more likely than men to take time out of their careers to take care of children. Why are women more likely than men to make this choice? Because that’s how we’ve always done it. Women are also more likely than men to choose more flexible schedules so that they can balance childcare and work.
Organizations are guilty of relying on this statistical nonsense to calculate their gender pay gaps as well. Organizations analyze pay at each job level and job description and then claim to have little or no gender bias in their organization. Google’s pay analysis even resulted in a claim that the tech giant wasmore than men . In reality, these organizations need to step back and take a look at who they are hiring and promoting to accurately determine their level of gender bias.
Controlling for management level, industry and years of experience doesn’t give an accurate picture of the true gender pay gap. Instead, it gives people an excuse to think there’s not a problem. believe men and women are paid equally for equal work. They’re not. The real gender pay gap is 81.6 cents.
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