A pair of Harvard University Ph.D. candidates may have put a dagger in the mythical “gender wage gap” oft cited by politicians and pundits as an issue that can be addressed through governmental policy.
In a paper titled, “Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men?” Valentin Bolotnyy and Natalia Emanuel study the unionized environment of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).
Economist John Phelan describes the MBTA as a “union shop with uniform hourly wages where men and women adhere to the same rules and receive the same benefits. Workers are promoted on the basis of seniority rather than performance, and male and female workers of the same seniority have the same choices for scheduling, routes, vacation, and overtime. There is almost no scope here for a sexist boss to favor men over women.”
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5 comments:
I know a lot of women who will be really pissed off after hearing this study.
You got it. My hours of work where 6:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. I still raised a daughter. Went to as many school functions as possible, cooked, cleaned, shopped. I had two jobs. One in office and one at home. Things may be different today with millennials living with family. I suggest you give a woman a job who is not a millennial and she will get the job done, on time, and in the best interest of her paying organization. Men work hard but have less challenges.
It is a rather narrow study, but it points to the fact that there is equality in many aspects of paying jobs.
If women truly were paid 30% less than men for the same work then any employer would be stupid to hire men.
Complete bs. Since I am knowingly getting paid less I am not going to work more. Pay me equal and I will put in more time
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