A question about the gender wage gap.

[Major Nikon]

80. "completely misrepresenting the article"

"From the study: The AAUW report compared the earnings of men and women just one year out of college across various sectors of the economy. The[div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"] report controlled for different factors that tend to impact pay, including hours, job type, employment sector, and college major. The report—which uses the class of 2009 as its sample cohort—found that on average, women working full time earned [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]82 percent of what their male peers earned. The average for all women, at all experience levels, is 77 percent, a number that has barely budged in a decade. "
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024235860#post65

From the study:

Graduating to a Pay Gap explores the pay gap between male and female college graduates working full time one year after graduation. You might expect the pay gap between men and women in this group of workers of similar age, education, and family responsibilities to be small or nonexistent. But in 2009—the most recent year for which data are available—women one year out of college who were working full time earned, on average, just [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]82 percent

of what their male peers earned. [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]After we control for hours, occupation, college major, employment sector, and other factors associated with pay, [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]the pay gap shrinks but does not disappear. [div style="display:inline; background-color:#FFFF66;"]About one third of the gap cannot be explained by any of the factors commonly understood to affect earnings, indicating that other factors that are more difficult to identify—and likely more difficult to measure—contribute to the pay gap.
http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-the-earnings-of-women-and-men-one-year-after-college-graduation.pdf

1/3rd of 18% = 6%

This study was conducted by feminists and if you read the fine print, shows the actual pay gap after controls are added is in the single digits (other studies show that it's lower). So not only have multiple people from this very thread cherry picked quotes from a feminist conducted study, they have misrepresented it by failing to show that the actual result is far lower than what they are willing to admit. Keep in mind also that this is the unexplained portion of the pay gap which even the AAUW admits may be due to things other than discrimination. "Gender discrimination is one potential contributor to the unexplained pay gap." (page 2)

This is what "completely misrepresenting the article" really looks like.

Cheers!