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As a person who would like our society to become more fair rather than less, it was distressing to read the article claiming that the male/female pay gap is a myth.
ReplyDeleteTheir reasoning about why the pay gap can't possibly exist seems to be based on some assumptions that may be false.
1.It assumes that people never forgo individual benefit to maintain wide-spread societal privilege for their group. Jim Crow was a pretty convincing demonstration that people will forgo personal economic gain to uphold their position of privilege. Another obvious example, in case people think it was just something in the water in the South: the former exclusion of non-white players from professional sports in all parts of the U.S.
2. It assumes that a negative bias towards women does not exist in our society. For the theory suggested by Mr. Perry to be true, employers would have to see women as equivalent employees to men, except for their willingness to work for 23% less. Many studies have shown that both men and women in our society view females as less competent/smart/employable than male employees even when their resumes are identical. A 'profit-minded' firm may think the 'best' employees are a good investment. A interesting example of this bias at work can be found in the hiring practices of major symphony orchestras before they adopted blind auditions.
3. It assumes that people always, or even often, behave in a rational way. Hah!
4. It assumes that people always, or even often, do what is good for them. Double hah!
Frankly, these sorts of arguments, that bias against women does not exist, make me froth at the mouth and get very hysterical and overemotional. Maybe I'm on the rag or something.
I love it when these fine folks take it one step further and assume that since bias does not exist, the absence of women in places of privilege must therefore be due to the innate inferiority of women. But the good news is that there is no bias! I want to weep.
That's well-argued b0tias, thank you as always for sharing your thoughts.
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