You know that statistic that women only make 75% of what men make? Like 75 cents on the dollar? Like an employer says, “you have tits, therefore you will make less than Dave over here”?
There’s a reason for it:
a Dept of Labor report in 2010 concluded unambiguously that the principal reason for economic difference was personal choice – perhaps not a free choice but one made by persons in the economy. One huge example: some 85% of women have children and the average mother tends to leave the labor force for 5-8 years and is much more likely than a male to work part-time. Both lead to reduced income. Add that males take the higher-paying jobs such as commercial fishing, which are dangerous and lead to much higher fatality and injury rates, and we begin to derive a picture different from the conventional statistician’s view that if there’s a discrepancy it must be imposed not chosen.
But it’s no longer a man’s world.
Look at a college campus for example, where “women outpace men in college action in a ratio of 1.4 to 1.”
That’s not a small difference either, that’s huge.
Why have we, in a generation, lost our men and boys? We paid attention to our women and girls, and now we have a generation of males that are simply behind.
Where, for example, is the White House Council on Boys and Men, still non-existent years after the nifty one on girls and women was proudly brandished?
Women don’t seem intent on changing that order anytime soon.
