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by PavlovsCat 4579 days ago
> the basic assumption that women get less respect and generally receive the shorter end of the stick in society

That's not really an assumption, that's just a cold, hard, documented fact. And, for most women, first-hand experience. Just one example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male–female_income_disparity_in...

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I've read lots of papers explaining the wage gap. The wikipedia article is too long for me to read right now, but thanks for pointing it out. I may update it if applicable.

Also what you don't take into account is that "wage gap" is not an arbitrary measurement. It is picked specifically to make women look like victims. You could also measure "time spent with friends and family instead of working" or "life expectancy" or "probability to die on the job" instead and men would look like the victims.

Another thing I wonder is how many of the wage gap studies take into account that typically income in a marriage is split equally. So a woman's wage in a job might be less than her husbands, but her effective income is the same.

Furthermore, might it be a privilege that women don't need to worry about money as much as men.

Just a few things to think about. Actually I think statistics like the wage gap are interesting. Something is going on, but it is probably not what feminists think. It's worthy of study, but feminism is not open to study or science - the only allowed result is "women are the victims". Typically the wage gap papers stop when they have identified the wage gap. Then they blurt out "see, it's discrimination" and no further investigation is attempted.