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.

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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.