It's 2018, is still the wage gap a thing?
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I mean, it has already been debunked several times. The "wage gap" is the fallacious assumption that comes from comparing the average salary of women and men and then deducting it si due to women being payed X% less for the exact same job. However, when looking at number of hours worked per week, type of job, number of extra/nighttime hours, etc. it nails down to just 1-4%, with sometimes women having higher wage, even. However, I still see this argument being used by feminists and politicians.
So my question is: do average people like you and me (i.e non-famous and not political activists) believe that women are in fact payed less than men for the same job or not?
P.S: If I were in charge of HR in a company, I'd try to spend as little in staff as possible (thus only hiring women, since they do the work just as good as men do), wouldn't I?
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There are two aspects to this: one is alleged pay discrepancy for different genders in the same job performing the same duties (which yes, I do believe is still an issue), and the other is alleged discrimination in hiring for higher-paid positions (which yes, I do believe is also an issue).
I consider myself to be an "average" person. I was in upper management at a government agency that oversaw a predominately male industry (oilfield). So there are arguable reasons why the regulatory agency would have discrepancies of that sort, I honestly don't think them particularly valid. YMMV.
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The "wage gap" isn't a thing in the way 99% of leftists believe.
The correct definition for it is; it's the average wage of all people in full-time employment divided by gender. It doesn't look at things like women working fewer hours than men and professions each of the genders choose.
As an example (according to the AMA), the highest paid medical profession is surgery, with the single highest paid profession being a brain surgeon. Women make up only 19% of surgeons and 4% of brain surgeons. Similar figures in the UK.
Conversely, women dominate the lowest paid medical professions such as pediatrician and gynocologist.
According to 1985 figures (latest I could find), only 2% of people in the mining industry are women and less than 1% of them was actually involved in mining. Obviously, this means that women in the mining industry make a lot less than men if you do a genieric piss take of a survey on wages.
Not being paid equally for the same thing is highly illegal in the UK, yet under 13 years of Labour rule there were only 16 prosecutions for this. That screams volumes about how realistic the problem actually is. The way vaginalists and their cucks tell it, we should have had trillions of prosecutions a day for it.
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It also depends on the industry. I work in an industry that is dominated by women. I've never seen any evidence of it.
