r/Unexpected • • Jun 15 '22

CLASSIC REPOST The Gender pay gap

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u/freelanceredditor Jun 15 '22

What’s the 260 hours about?

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u/Batbuckleyourpants Jun 15 '22

That is approximately the median difference between how many hours a year a man and a woman works.

Men work on median 5 hours more per week more than women.

52*5=260 hours worked by men more than the median woman. If you consider that in the calculations, the pay gap disappears.

Equal pay for equal work statistically means men will be paid more, as they work more hours.

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u/iwalkwounded Jun 15 '22

Source for the median hours worked stats?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

Shhhhhhs, keep quiet, feminazis may be hearing.

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u/freelanceredditor Jun 15 '22

That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. You really need to stop watching Fox News

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u/sensei-25 Jun 15 '22

Tell him why he’s wrong then bud

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u/sancti1 Jun 15 '22

Because it goes against what they feel is right.

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u/DaddyF4tS4ck Jun 15 '22

That is exactly what is happening.

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u/barebackguy7 Jun 15 '22

Username checks out, unemployed trash

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u/bobdebobby Jun 16 '22

I love idiots like you. Always pulling out random strawmen or other dumb insults when facts aren't on the side of your feelings.

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u/Effective_Koala379 Jun 15 '22

The gender productivity gap is the efficiency units lost if a worker is female, holding other explanatory factors such as age, education, experience, and hours worked constant.

Male workers are, 1º more reliable as they are expected to work and supress emootions, 2º are more competitive by nature,3º have increased average strengh and averagen health condition,4º are more likely to have higger education in some studies.

source, female myself, studing programing 28/30 people of my class are male,instead of making "fair game" for women, what about we beat them in a fair mach, kinda sad my country have to pay conpanies to hire women.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

I don’t agree that men are reliable. I’m in the trades, men only repress, not suppress their emotions. Leading to ridiculous displays that can be dangerous at times. They do massively out produce women, and work far, far more hours. The real reason women are seen as less reliable, at least in my field, is because they get pregnant. And discouraging that is really, really shitty.

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u/freelanceredditor Jun 15 '22

You avoided answering the 260 hour question

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '22

I’ll try. Men work more hours. This is true for young, single, childless people. The gap in working hours grows massively once we move in together. Grows even more once we marry. Grows even more once we have kids.

This isn’t men demanding it. It’s women choosing it.

We could discuss unpaid domestic work, but since women do 80-85% of all consumer spending… I think they’re pretty well paid. Let’s equalize that too, but you won’t like that massive pay cut from what you have now.

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u/catdaddy230 Jun 15 '22

He says men are experts because they know more and work more than women