All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 4, 2014 @01:45AM from the cash-on-the-table-or-not? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Synthia Tan writes that when you investigate the actual data, controlling for non-gender factors (like number of hours worked) the gender pay gap seems to disappear. 'A longitudinal study of female engineers in the 1980s showed a wage penalty of essentially zero.' In some cases women make more than men: women who work between 30 and 39 hours a week make 111% of what their male counterparts make." The researchers were studying more recent data, too; what are things like on this front where you work?

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You guys will end up on Jezebel by sandbagger · 2014-03-04 02:30 · Score: 2, Funny

You're gonna be in trouble. I'm telling.

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Re:Yeah, but women want it all by Anonymous Coward · 2014-03-04 03:57 · Score: 2, Funny

there's no "taboo" against people physically attacking a woman
What color is the sky in your world?