Reply #31: Your analysis fails

[Liberal Christian]

The issue is not so much that a man and a woman doing the same job for the same employer are making different salaries, although that used to be the case in most businesses.

The issue remains that overall, on average, women's pay is still lower than men's. This happens because more jobs traditionally done by women are still low-wage jobs -- child care worker, teacher, bank teller, retail, restaurant server, part-time cashier at a discount store, to name just a few. True there are men doing all of these jobs, but there are more women in these jobs, which pulls down the average wage.

There are not nearly as many women at the high end of earnings as men, which also skews the average. It takes a hell of a lot of part time Walmart salaries to equal one $12,000,000/year CEO salary.

Now, often these jobs supplement the wages of another household wage earner. Often they don't, however. And that shouldn't enter into it.

There is often somewhat more flexibility in scheduling in some of these jobs which enables those people who do them to also be home for kids after school, which is choice that some people make.

All kinds of factors enter into the wage disparity which your analysis complete fails to consider. The world is not as simplistic as you want to make it.