Are Anti-Discrimination Laws Working Against Millennial Women?

[DonViejo]

Would Millennial women worry less about gender discrimination if some anti-discrimination measures were modernized?

The Pew Research Center found some interesting contradictions in data it published last month on Millennial women in the workplace. On one hand, Millennial women now enjoy near pay parity with their male counterparts. On the other hand, they appear far more preoccupied with possible discrimination than one would expect given the near equity they enjoy. But here’s a question: Would Millennial women have less to worry about regarding gender discrimination if some of the current decades old anti-discrimination measures were modernized?

Among Pew’s most noteworthy findings: Millennial women earn 93 percent of what Millennial men earn, compared to the average of 84 percent of women across all age groups. (A study released in 2010 found that single women under 30 in major cities actually earn more than their male counterparts.) But the Pew study also found that “Women are much more likely than men to say society favors men (53 percent vs. 36 percent). Women are also more likely to say that society needs to do more to ensure equality in the workplace (72 percent vs. 61 percent of men). The gender gap on this question is particularly wide among Millennials: 75 percent of Millennial women compared with 57 percent of Millennial men say the country needs to do more in order to bring about workplace equality.”

Pew goes on to note that Millenials are particularly concerned with the impact that having children will have on their careers, a concern Millennial women are likely to anticipate bearing the primary burden for, or at the very least to be expected to. This is one theory regarding why, despite their own relatively rosy experiences in the workplace so far, Millennial women do not seem to have a particularly optimistic outlook on the larger professional picture or their own futures. Which raises one of the potential problems with current anti-discrimination measures.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/13/are-anti-discrimination-laws-working-against-millennial-women.html

[DURHAM D]

1. That is a headline looking for a story...

I stopped reading when they started quoting someone from the Independent Women's Forum - a conservative group associated with Lynne Cheney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Women's_Forum

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. There are lies, Damned lies and statistics ...

Among Pew’s most noteworthy findings: Millennial women earn 93 percent of what Millennial men earn, compared to the average of 84 percent of women across all age groups. (A study released in 2010 found that single women under 30 in major cities actually earn more than their male counterparts.) But the Pew study also found that “Women are much more likely than men to say society favors men (53 percent vs. 36 percent).

These are NOT conflicting findings, nor hard to believe/understand, as they are reporting the price of oranges, along side the quality of apples.

The pay parity finding says zero about the treatment of women that did not get hired/promoted. Further, I find it interesting that the report indicates a 9% pay disparity ... as if that's okay ... then, reports that women feel less favored. Could that be that 9% pay disparity?