Gender pay gap in lawyers due to performance differences [pdf]

For future reference this story made it to about 4th position, and then was moved to 320. I assume there is some manual switch moderators pull to do this.

This action is unfortunate because the article is peer reviewed and published in a top journal. Similar articles with the opposite conclusions regularly make it to the front page. So it looks like articles are being killed merely because they go against there preconceptions of some moderators.

(repeating comment from last repost) This paper, accepted to the top economics journal "Journal of Political Economy", demonstrates how the pay gap in lawyers is due to differences in performance, and that "the differential impact across genders in the presence of young children and differences in aspirations to become a law firm partner account for a large share of the difference in performance." I hope this scientific study will help inform the debate on the gender pay gap, and in particular will show that the view that the gender pay gap is due in part to different aspirations is based in scientific evidence, not prejudice.

Gender gap is a myth.