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[hapapp]

Pay equity is a complicated calculation because many factors enter in the picture. Women take more time off to raise a family, choice of college major, and one's occupation all impact the difference in pay. However, the point of the AAUW study, based of U.S. Department of Education data, was to show that one year after graduation in many fields men make more than women. It is a more apples to apples comparison.

[Gonzo]

The data you described is exactly what I posted. Female CEOs make less than male CEOs and so on down the line when comparing the same occupations. What does one's marital status have to do with anything?

Marital status affects gross income (joint tax filing status etc). All of those factors are important in narrowing the scope and yielding reliable data that fairly compares two people in the exact same situation.

Allow Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Time Magazine's "The Factual Feminist Blog,"to explain:

http://time.com/3222543/5-feminist-myth ... l-not-die/

"The bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.

Wage gap activists say women with identical backgrounds and jobs as men still earn less. But they always fail to take into account critical variables. Activist groups like the National Organization for Women have a fallback position: that women’s education and career choices are not truly free—they are driven by powerful sexist stereotypes. In this view, women’s tendency to retreat from the workplace to raise children or to enter fields like early childhood education and psychology, rather than better paying professions like petroleum engineering, is evidence of continued social coercion. Here is the problem: American women are among the best informed and most self-determining human beings in the world. To say that they are manipulated into their life choices by forces beyond their control is divorced from reality and demeaning, to boot."

Her primary source:
http://www.consad.com/content/reports/G ... Report.pdf

My argument wasn't a "straw man" a few posts ago when you tried to refute it with "There is also a MUCH better unemployment rate among women than men; they're jailed at 1/10th the rate of men; and they're more likely to enjoy the privilege of higher education than men."

I was refuting the pervasive myth of the "patriarchy." Your "Woe is men" jab was indeed a straw man.

[AppGrad78]

Chris Jones' life unraveling before our eyes:

http://www.wdrb.com/story/28207251/chri ... AA.twitter

[TheMackAttack]

Just curious if we're still defending Chris Jones for being unfairly punished because of his Y chromosome?