Comments on: Thomas Sowell on the Gender Pay Gap http://www.eqsq.com/vivreladifference/2008/06/03/thomas-sowell-on-the-gender-pay-gap/ Vivre La Difference Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tim Worstall http://www.eqsq.com/vivreladifference/2008/06/03/thomas-sowell-on-the-gender-pay-gap/#comment-26611 Tim Worstall Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:46:25 +0000 http://eqsq.com/vivreLaDifference/?p=501#comment-26611 I don't deny that a gender pay gap exists at all: I assume it right at the start. Rather, I'm interested in whether any of the pay gap that we can see is to be explained by direct (or what economists call "Taste") discrimination. The more I find out about it all the more convinced I am that all of the gap can be explained without there being any such direct discrimination. I don’t deny that a gender pay gap exists at all: I assume it right at the start. Rather, I’m interested in whether any of the pay gap that we can see is to be explained by direct (or what economists call “Taste”) discrimination.

The more I find out about it all the more convinced I am that all of the gap can be explained without there being any such direct discrimination.

]]> By: tnaylort http://www.eqsq.com/vivreladifference/2008/06/03/thomas-sowell-on-the-gender-pay-gap/#comment-26499 tnaylort Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:42:20 +0000 http://eqsq.com/vivreLaDifference/?p=501#comment-26499 You do not take the possibility of sexism in hiring practices into account at all. There are many men and women who prefer to hire men because they still posses a gender bias about job performance. Your argument about future wages determining current wages is not really relevant. Anyway, the 2007 AAUW research did its best to account for the factors you refer to as contributing to the argument that there is no wage gap. What is gained by denying that a wage gap exists? You do not take the possibility of sexism in hiring practices into account at all. There are many men and women who prefer to hire men because they still posses a gender bias about job performance.

Your argument about future wages determining current wages is not really relevant. Anyway, the 2007 AAUW research did its best to account for the factors you refer to as contributing to the argument that there is no wage gap. What is gained by denying that a wage gap exists?

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