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In the United States, women earn cents for each dollar that a man earns. Can this be explained? What are the reasons?

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Yes, it can be explained. Many people who are blissfully ignorant and want to pretend they are oppressed think that women are getting paid less because they are women. This is factually and statistically inaccurate. Allow me to elaborate.

First off, if women get paid less than men for the same jobs with equal performance, why don’t they just hire only women? They would save more money. The reason they don't do this is because the wage gap existing because of discrimination is a myth.

The US department of labor released a paper after examining over 50 peer reviewed studies. Which concluded that the oft cited .23¢ wage gap may be almost entirely the result of individual choices being made by both male and female workers, and not because of the gender of the workers.

George Town university compiled a list of the 5 best-paying college majors, and the percentage of men and women majoring in those fields.

#1highest paying major petroleum engineering

87%male

#2 pharmaceutical sciences

48%female

#3 mathematics and computer science

67%male

#4 aerospace engineering

88%male

#5 chemical engineering

72%male

Notice how women out represent me in 1-5 majors and only by 2%

They also made a list of the 5 worst paying college majors

#1 counseling and physiology

74%female

#2 early childhood education

97%female

#3 theology and religions vocations

66%male

#4 Human services in community organization

81%female

#5 social work

88%female

Women that lead in all but one category, even considering that it is even still the lowest percentage of all the 5.

Even in the same profession men and women make different career choices that impact how much money they make. Take nursing for example. 12% of all nurses are male but they also make 18% more money. The reason is due to male nurses gravitate towards the higher paying nursing specialties, they work longer hours, and will finds jobs and cities with the highest compensation. It has to do with their own personal choices rather than their gender. Professor Linda Aiken and experts on nursing compensation sums up the data, “career choices and educational differences explain most, if not all, the gender gap in nursing.”

According to Harvard economist Claudia Goldin “even if two lawyers have the same education in the same specialty and work the same number of hours, firms pay more to someone you will always be on call and ready to be in the office when the firm needs them.” Women on average work on average 36.6 hours a week vs men 41 hours which is a 4.4-hour difference which you can say isn’t much of a difference but with that logic neither is 0.79¢ to a dollar. If you work more, you get paid more. This supports the claim that the wage gap is because of personal choices, work ethic, and number of hours worked.

In conclusion, the wage gap can and has been explained dozens of times. Every reliable source claims and proves that the wage gap has to do with personal choices in jobs and not gender. The wage gap exists not because of gender discrimination but because of personal choices.

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I got a 100%, so this is correct.

User Pavlo Sobchuk
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There are not many reasons for it, women and men have never really had equal rights. In the past women were suppousto stay at home and cook or clean, while boys could become whatever they wanted to be (doctor, teacher, etc.)

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