A large part of the gender pay gap is due to women being overrepresented in low-paying occupations. Some people don't think that's a real pay gap, but think of it this way: in a world where all women are forced to be low-payed secretaries, and all men high-payed executives, there would be no gender pay gap when controlling for occupation.
Also, why would you believe that people wouldn't hire men if they could pay women less? Half the time it isn't a decision to pay women less, it's a decision to not offer them as many promotions and raises. People don't think of that while budgeting for hiring ("I'll offer this women fewer raises, mwa ha ha"), it just seeps into the data later (think a boss not noticing a women's successes becuase of subtle internal biases). I think you might be working from a flase premise? Obviously, a false premise wouldn't lead to what we see in the world.
I don't know if it was in an image or what, but related to this topic, it said something along the lines of "the pay gap exists because women want to work as female doctors, instead of just doctors."
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u/Cyberguardian173 3d ago
Sure, here you go: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/04/gender-pay-gap-in-us-has-narrowed-slightly-over-2-decades/
A large part of the gender pay gap is due to women being overrepresented in low-paying occupations. Some people don't think that's a real pay gap, but think of it this way: in a world where all women are forced to be low-payed secretaries, and all men high-payed executives, there would be no gender pay gap when controlling for occupation.
Also, why would you believe that people wouldn't hire men if they could pay women less? Half the time it isn't a decision to pay women less, it's a decision to not offer them as many promotions and raises. People don't think of that while budgeting for hiring ("I'll offer this women fewer raises, mwa ha ha"), it just seeps into the data later (think a boss not noticing a women's successes becuase of subtle internal biases). I think you might be working from a flase premise? Obviously, a false premise wouldn't lead to what we see in the world.