Syrio said:
Controlling for occupation and numbers of hours worked would be like controlling for personality type in a personality test. We know that women make less money.
In case anyone is interested, when leftist clowns start up with the bogus wage gap arguments and cite to raw outcome BLS stats as support, here's how to shut them down with something called "truth."
1. BLS outcome numbers are only good for comparing broad trends in whole economies and industries. They are not and never have been suited to comparing which gender makes more.
2. Whereas more and more women are sole earners with even some primary family breadwinners, the vast majority of primary family breadwinners in the US are men. As such, in that role, you don't have a choice, you work or your family goes hungry. You don't have the option to work part-time or work fewer hours. More women have more choices to work less, and as is typical in leftist illogic, that is distorted into a supposed gender disadvantage women suffer from as opposed to the truth, it is a gender based advantage they enjoy. This principle applies throughout the debunk of the gender wage gap in the US. Women generally have more choices today, men fewer.
3. A fulltime BLS workweek is 30 hours. So this means that the 50 hour a week primary earner man and the 30 hour a week secondary earner woman in the cubicle across the way are accounted exactly the same inaccurately. Ruins the BLS numbers as dispositive of anything right there.
4. BLS job categories lump lots of vastly different positions into the same category. A receptionist in an insurance firm who sits in air conditioning answering the phone (mostly women by women's choice) makes $10 an hour. The commissioned salesman at the desk next to hers makes 3x as much out calling on people busting his ass, and receiving no base salary at all. BLS numbers count these two as the same job (financial services) when they are most certainly not. This applies across many fields in many ways, and usually in women's favor for wage gap arguments wherever there is a comfortable easy low-pay job sitting next to a hard uncomfortable commission job. Once again, the man -might- like to sit in the AC on his ass and make $10 an hour, but in many cases, that choice is not available to him.
5. BLS categories have no way to account for experience, work volume and consistency in the workforce. A 40 year old who took 7 years off to have children or work on their golf swing is not nearly as valuable as the 33 y.o. with the same experience and most certainly should not earn as much. In some few jobs, women do more work volume than men, but in a vast majority of jobs, men do a multiple of female work. Women take vastly more big chunks of time away from work than men, mostly due to maternity.
Books, articles, have been dedicated to the above simple facts for some time now. There's really no excuse for remaining ignorant of why BLS number based wage gaps are bogus. So we can conclude about people who blithely make the standard leftist wage gap argument either 1. They are stupid and willing to forward an argument they don't truly understand in context because it fits their political agenda, or 2. They are purposefully dishonest POSs and nothing that comes out of their mouths is worthy of any consideration.