We get better grades in college too.

So really there is no rational argument for paying us less.  Honest.  It’s okay to accept that there’s discrimination in play and stop assuming the employers in question have perfectly rational, defensible reasons.

Social phenomena rarely have simple explanations.  People are complicated critters.

I’d cite some papers but this is a large body of literature.  It’s easier to just tell you to go to Google Scholar and search for “wage gap” or “gender wage gap.” One of the leading scholars on this is Blau, so that’s a good starting point.

Also, women should be penalized for being the ones who have children, don’tcha know. Aside from overpopulation issues, which should be taken deadly seriously, it’s not like society, you know, *benefits* from proper childraising or anything…

Genuinely pondering that one…

Do you also say this when presented with statistics on domestic violence or sex-crimes? 

In most cases, I’m likely to be stronger than you from working out like a boss, and I probably earn more money than you, so you can get over this weaker sex crap. 

In regard to the adult film industry, men make much less than women in hetero porn, but men who perform in gay porn get paid more.  This is slowly starting to change with the rise of men like Keni Styles and James Deen. Producers are starting to cotton on to the fact that straight women want to see attractive male performers, and realise that if they want to attract better looking male actors, they are going to have to increase the pay. Therefore the gap is slowly but surely decreasing, and a good thing , too!

when you have people off for 1.5-3 months not earning but are reporting on a yearly income it can quickly skew the data one way. 

i would love to read the methodology behind that study to find out exactly what was taken into account when the figures were compiled.

Again, kindness and courtesy are fine, but chauvinism is not! Can you really not see the difference between these two situations:

a. Man offers to help me carry stuff because it’s a job easier performed by two people, or because he is so much stronger than me that he would require minimal effort where I would wear myself out

b. Man forces his ‘help’ upon me by playing tug-of-war with the stuff I am carrying, declaring at the same time that as a woman, I shouldn’t be carrying it.

B. is not an exaggeration, it happens exactly like that. Usually it also comes with the man being all smug and pleased with himself for rescuing me, and refusing to let me share the rest of the task with him. Even if we are of similar strength. Actually, especially then- something about proving his manliness, perhaps? Sometimes I even get a lecture about what a freak I am for not accepting courtesy and kindness. ‘Oh, I’m just old-fashioned, what a pity you can’t appreciate that.’

I should know these things more definitively, but I only know how much my wife makes, not what her co-workers make.