Easier to say if you're not the one getting 81 cents to the dollar.
That point has been debunked for just about forever now, including from Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor to Bill Clinton, and about as feminist friendly as a man could be.
The net net being that if there is a gender wage gap, it's on the order of 6 cents to the dollar, not 23 or 19 cents.
Do you have a better source? Not being snarky, but a couple of sentences with no cites isn't particularly compelling.
Especially when he starts by saying it's a rough estimate, and finishes by saying that the pay differential does exist, and is partly caused by bias and prejudice.
> Q: I’d be interested to know your thoughts on the feminisation of poverty and the male-female wage differential. How much of that is due to career choice?
> A: Rough estimate: About 50 percent of the differential has to do with different career choices made by women and men. Twenty-five percent involves greater time women spend on care-taking of children and elderly relatives. The other 25 percent is due to bias and prejudice in the labor market.
There are a wide variety of takes, pro and con, on the gender wage gap. It's clearly very political, and so for every report X you can easily find !X out there.
It's also useful to know how this wage gap is calculated. So as you search, see if you can find any source that says this is an apples to apples comparison. Men of some age and schooling in some field compared to women of the same age and schooling in the same field. Because the 77 cents number, the 81 cents number really seems to from adding up all wages in all fields from men and comparing them to all wages in all fields from women.
Here is a report from CONSAD commissioned, I believe from the Labor Department under GWB, removed from gov't websites when President Obama came into office, and if you google it, a report criticized by many on the left, frequently and loudly.
What is interesting is that, I believe, all of these supposedly conservative reports and analysis support what Robert Reich is saying (and/or vice versa.)
That point has been debunked for just about forever now, including from Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor to Bill Clinton, and about as feminist friendly as a man could be.
The net net being that if there is a gender wage gap, it's on the order of 6 cents to the dollar, not 23 or 19 cents.
http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/05/01/robert-reich-answers-...
We also know that many if not most young female college graduates do better with salary than their male counterparts.