Richard Hancuff insinuates that Tyler Britten is misguided and uninformed about the wage gap between men and women because he didn't mention that the government helps spread feminist misconceptions.
Some statistics show that the average woman makes 75 cents to the man's dollar. Hancuff even mentioned the average businesswoman's 86 cents to the businessman's dollar, as shown by the United States' General Accounting Office. But data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth reveals that when you control for age, education, occupation or experience, women without children earn 98 cents to the man's dollar. (There's no excuse for the two cents, but that's much better than 75.)
Don't think that it's because the culture doesn't permit a woman to obtain an education. Sixty percent of college students are female. Average wages of women are lower than men's because the average woman has less experience and is more likely to choose a lower-paying job with more flexibility to combine work and family responsibilities. This is not sexist discrimination, but a result of free will; there are objective differences between male and female priorities and these personal choices outside the workplace still have an impact on the workplace.
I don't necessarily blame people who have heard the statistical "facts" promoted in the media and government that say that women are oppressed; if this is what the 'experts' say, how is the layperson to know at first glance unless they are familiar with the nature of statistics and have explored the subject's mitigating variables? I blame the experts and the heads of movements who utilize slipshod psychometrics to promote the raving 'concern' of the moment.
Desiree D. Dudley