Being a woman will cost you almost half a million over your lifetime - just for being female.

[davidn3600]

80. But you aren't including hours worked! Men are OVERWORKING!

If your male peers are putting in hours more work, it's no surprise over the course of years that they end up making more money. They get the raises and the promotions. Their bosses and companies like them more and want to reward the hard work.


Men are overworking to make more money....women are not.

Expansion in “overwork” – net of other changes since 1979 – could have affected the gender gap in two ways: Men could be overworking increasingly more often than women, or the financial payoff to overworking could have increased, or both. In their statistical analysis, Cha and Weeden identify the second factor as critical. In 1979, workers who put in long hours tended to make less per each hour than those who worked full-time; by 2009, that had reversed. Putting in the extra hours now pays off more. Or phrased another way, working “only” full-time now pays off relatively less.

Women remain less likely than men to put in those long hours, even though the payoff for doing so grew, which means that men disproportionately brought in the rising wages paid to overworkers. This explains part of the reason why gender equalization in pay slowed down. The authors estimate that the higher payoff for overwork was large enough to cancel out the gains in wage equality women had made from their growing edge in college graduation and the growing importance of college. The consequences of overwork now paying so well were especially strong among professional and managerial employees (Sandberg’s “lean in” targets).

In sum, Cha and Weeden argue, the American workplace increasingly rewards – and probably expects – overwork; men overwork a lot more often than women; this development helped stall pay equality.

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2014/06/10/work-hours-and-the-pay-gap/

But feminists refuse to even look at this angle of the problem. You instead would rather have men work their 50-60 hour weeks and then you get equal pay for working 35-40 hour weeks and take time off to raise your kids.