Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Women in the United States are paid only 79 cents on the dollar compared with men doing the same job. But at least gender melts away in the digital economy of the Internet, right? Nope. A study of more than 1 million auctions on the online commerce site eBay finds that women receive consistently less money than men for selling the very same products. T: The oft-cited "cents on the dollar" claims, though, ought perhaps be taken with a grain of salt; it depends who's counting, and what.

Comments

Re:Obviously

[F.Ultra]

Well this was in TFA:

Researchers found that when the seller of these popular items was self-identified as female, the auction got fewer bids and a lower final price.

So they where only looking at sellers that where clearly identified as females, I guess that also means that the comparison group then was both males and females but with user names and descriptions that didn't identify them as females.

Re: uhh maybe they're pricing their goods lower?

[Harlequin80]

And for something so pivotal it isn't particularly thorough.

From TFA "To see whether gender was apparent in an eBay auction, they challenged 400 people to guess the gender of 100 randomly chosen sellers. Just using clues like the names of the sellers and what other items they tended to sell, participants correctly guessed the gender of 56%, declared 35% unguessable, and got less than 9% wrong"

From that they get 44% incorrect. That is a fucking MASSIVE error level to apply to your stats. Particularly once you correct for other things and are claiming only a 3% differential.

Re: Bullhonky

[BarbaraHudson]

That makes sense because they lost their male anatomy which any man will tell you is at least 30% of their worth.

Little boy pulls down his shorts and says to the little girl "I've got one of these and you don't ha ha!"
Little girl pulls down her shorts and says "I've got one of these and my mommy says with one of these I can get as many of those as I want!"

It's a buyers market. :-)