Bigger audience, more money

[u/Brilliant_Garlic69]

[u/BlazingJava]

You know people used to study for these things and only those who knew would speak live. Now with internet everybody has their own expertise on the same matter.

Economics will still economic no matter your personal opinion

[u/just_3p1k → u/BlazingJava]

Do you have any credible study of gender paygap where the reason of pay gap is the gender of the person? I have 0 belief anyone would hire man for jobs where woman would work for 85% of the pay

[u/Cyberguardian173 → u/just_3p1k]

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.

[u/Red1Monster → u/Cyberguardian173]

Damn, that's weird. Why are fields dominated by women paid less on average ?

Strange. I guess it must be part of evolution to want to be paid less money /s