And women are overrepresented in low paying professions like teaching and nursing.

Women follow their hearts, whereas men sell out for the cash. Probably with good intentions like being able to maintain a family or children.

I would of liked to have been a mathematician. But I realised that this doesn’t pay and it’s hard to get work so I became an engineer, which was the next best thing for the technically minded. As my needs grew I could see being a technical engineer being a limiting factor, so I began to concentrate on the contractual side. Now I’m even looking at selling right out and moving into the business and legal side. Yet I still hold a great affection for being a mathematician but I’ll never do it as I’ve got a family to support and I’ve developed expensive tastes!

A woman is much more likely to enjoy working in the arts, or with children or whatever, which doesn’t pay like being a corporate lawyer. Then when faced with this she is less likely to be willing to sell out and start suing people for all they’re worth as she’d still rather work in her area of interest and passion, even though the money is lower. Of course some women do become corporate lawyers and earn the big bucks, but I think it’s a fair generalisation or the lefties wouldn’t be whinging so loud.

Different lifestyle choices for different people.

Actually this leaves out the most obvious reason: Men and women generally are attracted to different types of work, and the types of work that men are attracted to are generally better paid.

Especially at the moment, the best paid jobs are in mining in construction, along with the historically well-paid careers in business.

Plenty more women are becoming doctors and lawyers nowadays, but still very few are becoming corporate vice presidents, investment bankers and CEOs.

And women are overrepresented in low paying professions like teaching and nursing.

This requires fuerther ripping:

More prostitutes are female, and have a high incentive to and easy course of action to under-report actual income.

Despite the discrimination from the ADF, women simply don’t choose to do the same work as men – e.g the mining sector. Women are not less valuable than men, but the labour that men speicalise in right now is more beneficial per worker to society right now.

Never forget this is full time work only. Most middle aged men are full time employed and fewer women are. This is the bulge in the demographic, and also these men have seniority and more qualifications than younger men and women.

Why and how does this work?

Has wage equality policy worked?

Will it ever work?

At what cost to meritocracy and general welfare?

People get paid, as do all other resources, according to their marginal productivity. Set the wage above this or make non wage costs too high and they are unemployed. Wage equality and EEO makes employing more men too costly and it is an implicit subidy to women.

Women will get paid less as long as they have children and the demographics are that senior managment are predominantly male. Wait two generations and the only difference will be from child bearing. Wages are not telling the whole story though: individuals act as households with respect to disposable income. Men who are partnered or married fathers tend to compensate as women stay at home more to make up for forgone income.

Wage equality is really bad policy made upon poorly read data.

You missed workplace death and injury. Child custody. Suicide.

Regards,
Terje.

Nicholas, it didn’t. That’s how wordpress.com blogs show that another blog post references this one. If you click the blue “international women’s day « Trinifar” link you’ll see the post on my blog.

Please tell us why you are not a libertarian, so we can tear your argument to pieces.

Thanks for that very pleasant invitation. If you are actually interested, I’ve written two posts on my blog that discuss libertarianism and shed some light on my personal views.

AND when are we going to have an International Bloke’s Day? Men also contribute to ’society’, I’ll have you know.

Just like your mother may have told you if you asked when there would be a children’s day, every day is bloke’s day.