The REAL reason women earn less at work: Harvard professor says sex discrimination, gender bias or a glass ceiling aren't to blame
The gender pay gap is rooted in the issue of 'greedy jobs', rather than sex discrimination, gender bias or a glass ceiling, a Harvard economics professor has claimed.
Claudia Goldin, who taught Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, outlines her argument in her new book, Career & Family, which draws on research to show that highly-paid 'greedy jobs' in City law, banking and politics force women to choose between their careers and families once they become mothers.
The term 'greedy job' describes 'a certain type of "beck and call" job, which pays over the odds for extensive travel, unpredictable, inflexible hours and demanding client facetime,' The Times explains.
The prestige, selectivity and enormous pay checks make this type of job highly desirable for male and female graduates. However, once children come along, it becomes difficult for two parents to maintain their 'greedy' careers.
'Men and women have fairly equal pay trajectories until babies come along,' the article notes. 'Because women tend to marry men a little older, and so ahead of them on the pay scale, it is logical for the wife to step back.'
Goldin, who focuses on college-educated women, writes 'gender norms that we have inherited get reinforced in a host of ways to allot more of the childcare responsibilities to mothers, and more of the family care to grown daughters'.
It is still more common for women to make this compromise and step back from their 'greedy' careers than men.
Goldin notes gender pay gaps are not as pronounced across all industries. In careers that are less 'greedy', like dermatology, tech and veterinary science, mothers are more likely to progress in line with their male peers and earn a similar amount.
'So the devil is in the detail here,' Goldin told The Times. 'You really have to go occupation by occupation. And that’s the work that I've done, showing that there is a clear relationship between the occupational demands and the gender wage gaps.
'So, surprisingly, the occupations that had the smallest gaps are tech, engineering and others in science.'
Goldin also picks apart the other factors commonly blamed for the pay gap, including sex discrimination, gender bias and a glass ceiling, and notes the arguments are not supported by the data.
'Data now shows that true pay and employment discrimination, while they matter, are relatively small,' Goldin writes... 'So why do earnings differences persist when gender equality at works seems to finally be within our grasp, and at a time when more professions are open to women than ever before?
'Are women actually receiving lower pay for equal work? By and large, not so much anymore. Pay discrimination in terms of unequal earnings for the same work accounts for a small fraction of the total earnings gap. Today the problem is different.
'Some attribute the gender earnings gap to "occupational segregation" - the idea that women and men are self-selecting, or being railroaded into, certain professions that are stereotypically gendered (such as nurse versus doctor, teacher versus professor) and that those chosen professions pay differently.'
However this only accounts for 'at most a third of the difference in earnings between men and women'.
'Thus, we empirically know that the lion’s share of the pay gap comes from something else... We must give the problem a more accurate name: "greedy work".'
However there is a tentative silver lining: the pandemic has curbed the demands 'greedy' employers can put on their employees. This has coincided with an uptick in the number of women employed full-time.
It is too early to tell if the two are linked, but Goldin said she is 'cautiously optimistic about the effects of the pandemic on women’s careers'.
She added: 'It may have a silver lining in bringing down the price of flexibility, but only if we do not create a female enclave that works from home.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10254031/The-REAL-reason-women-earn-work.html
***********************************************Fed Chair Blows Up Biden's Argument Inflation Is 'Transitory'
For months, the Biden administration has been telling the American people that inflation and rapidly increasing prices on everyday items are "transitory" and temporary.
"The President would say we take the commitment, he takes the commitment of lowering costs for the American people very seriously. We, of course, have seen, and from outside experts, including the Federal Reserve, OECD, and others, that their expectation is that these inflation rises will be transitory, that they will come back down next year," Psaki told reporters in October.
But according to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who President Biden just nominated for another term, it's time to retire "transitory" from the conversation. In other words, inflation is here to stay and it's going to get worse.
Inflation was never temporary or transitory, but that didn't stop the Biden administration from claiming it was.
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Fauci claims societal safety trumps your individual rights
One of Fauci’s biggest policy blunders was his insistence on lockdowns. In the interview with Ted Koppel, Fauci said his first problem was when President Donald Trump pushed back against the tyrannical quarantines that eventually worked to devastate communities.
Fauci said, “I didn’t quite understand what the purpose of that was, except to put this misplaced perception about people’s individual right to make a decision that supersedes the societal safety.” The good doctor clearly doesn’t ascribe to the tenets of the U.S. Constitution.
The man America trusted for COVID advice turned out to be nothing more than a bullhorn for the Draconian liberal lockdowns. Dozens of states refused to exercise such tyranny over their citizens. The results from COVID were no worse.
In fact, in most instances, these states had far better COVID numbers than the Democrat parts of the country that exercised authoritarian controls. There is also the discussion of how each of these states fared economically and emotionally.
The truth is in the data. Each of the states, which left COVID choices and decisions to the people, like the constitution says they should, has thrived in comparison. There is also the underlying emotional devastation caused by excessive COVID mandates and policies.
Again, the proof is in the statistical data. Thousands of residents from liberal states have flocked to more conservative homes. This is because of the radical policies leveled by liberal politicians. The increase in mental health issues in heavily locked down states is also overwhelming.
However, it’s also because of the curtailment of their freedoms by these power-hungry, liberal tyrants. Anthony Fauci is an unelected bureaucrat who acted as if he was anointed the King of COVID. He was not. He is a tyrant
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Australia: Child murderers and serial killers could be denied parole for decades under new Queensland laws
Child murderers and serial killers serving life sentences could be denied any bid for parole for potentially decades under new laws passed in Queensland.
The laws will give the president of Parole Board Queensland the power to make a "restricted prisoner declaration", blocking certain inmates from obtaining parole for up to 10 years, with no limit on the number of bans made.
State parliament passed the legislation on Tuesday evening despite concerns from the legal community the parole board sat "behind closed doors" and the powers "should only be vested in a court".
Described as the "toughest" parole laws in the nation, the state government said the measures were designed to limit unnecessary trauma for victims' families and the community caused by regular parole applications.
Under the new framework, the president of the board, an independent body, will have the discretion to declare that specific inmates – those sentenced to life for multiple murders or for murdering a child – must not be considered for parole for up to 10 years.
In a statement, Police Minister Mark Ryan said the government had carefully considered the rights of everyone concerned and it made no apology for taking this course of action.
The legislation was tabled in September amid the latest parole application by convicted murderer Barrie John Watts, who killed 12-year-old Sian Kingi in 1987. His bid was ultimately refused in October.
LNP Member for Ninderry, Dan Purdie — a former police officer —tabled in parliament earlier this year a petition with more than 70,000 signatures calling for Watts to be kept behind bars.
"This legislation is the direct legacy of that journey," he said. "The Kingis' pain and suffering will never go away, nor will the Morcombes be spared the trauma of losing their son Daniel at the evil hands of Brett Cowan.
"At least now these two Sunshine Coast families, and indeed families of victims all over Queensland, can be assured that there will be a legislative pathway to keep convicted killers and multiple murderers from ever menacing the community again."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/qld-prison-parole-laws-passed-queensland/100662520
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