[gizmo]

> By which you don't like people pointing out your mental model for society and the economy are hopelessly oversimplified.

That the wage gap is a real and serious problem is actually the scientific consensus. The wage gap has been studied for decades in dozens of countries. I'm not defending a contrarian position here, just the mainstream scientific view that labor compensation favors men.

> Just out of curiosity, why are you so sure women do 50% of the labor?

This is pretty well researched. See for instance:

http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/chapter4.pdf

You'll see that paid + unpaid minutes worked per day are about the same for each gender, but women do way more unpaid work and men do way more paid work.

[gozur88]

>That the wage gap is a real and serious problem is actually the scientific consensus.

That's not true at all. That the wage gap is real and a serious problem is a political consensus among feminists.

>You'll see that paid + unpaid minutes worked per day are about the same for each gender, but women do way more unpaid work and men do way more paid work.

Surveys about hours worked say nothing at all about productivity. I'm willing to concede women spend as much time working as men. But so what? That's not the same thing as saying they do 50% of the labor.