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Women with an advanced degree are paid the same as men with just a bachelor's. And at every education level, women's hourly wages are about 20% lower than men's

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Two questions (please don't read as skepticism, the analysis matters regardless of answers): 1. Does this analysis control for experience at same age? 2. Does it control for field choice?

This isn't new. It's been justified to pay women less since we were allowed by men to join the workforce, and instead of improving ever, it's widened. UT continously ranks last, near 70 cents for every $1 for same work and same qualifications. Women with more experience/education still make less.

I don't know how to more clearly indicate that these question were for understanding what the data says, not to justify ignoring it. But we need to understand what the issue is (e.g. focusing only on pay equity in apples to apples kind will never fully solve the inequity).

Some of the "issues" we've been given since being allowed to join the workforce: Men are supporting families so they need to make more. Women don't need to make as much bcuz they can get married. If they make the same, they won't get married. If we pay them more, it's less we can pay men.

And women keep voting for the GOP, who will take exactly zero steps to address any of it. DJT has received 53% of the votes of white women in his 3 elections. Women voting to protect the male patriarchy is one of the reasons we’re here…

Every single state in the US. Utah women make about 70 cents for every $1 paid to a male counterpart for the same work. One of the original excuses was women don't need the same money because they can just get married, and if we do pay them the same, they won't get married and have babies.

Only 14 countries have laws on the books for pay equality, but they are not regularly enforced. Iceland was the first in the world to try to say employers must prove same pay is being given for the same work, which only happened in 2018.