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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Yes OP, after statistical controls are performed the gap disappears. Problem is there are lots of poorly designed studies that fail to do this which is why you still hear about it. A common meme foisted around the Internet by the academically illiterate. When pressed for sources, they invariably link to something like the Bush admin. CONSAD study, which admits that even after all feasible statistical controls are applied, roughly a third of the gap persists. That's just raw discrimination, it still leaves open the questions of the social pressures women face that lead them into lower paying career decisions and if we can do anything about them.
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Employers do rationally exploit the wage gap, though, and this isn't contingent on all women being paid 22% less in all occupations. The gap wouldn't exist if they didn't, but it's likely fewer women would be hired in such a situation and we would have a workforce participation problem instead. The issue at hand for feminists is gender imbalances in different occupational fields, not the existence of lower paying jobs (though that is worth looking into, as has been discussed on the previous page).
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