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Fine, go here and look at the PDF (also linked). However its from 2020 though most other research suggest snot much has changed. Still very representative.

https://iwpr.org/iwpr-issues/esme/the-gender-wage-gap-by-occ...

https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2021-Occupationa...

I am surprised (but maybe not so much) on the number of people who seem so quick to dismiss gender inequality in pay.

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"The controlled gender pay gap is $0.99 cents for every $1 men make, [...]. The controlled pay gap tells us what women earn compared to men when all compensable factors are accounted for — such as job title, education, experience, industry, job level, and hours worked. This is equal pay for equal work."

https://www.payscale.com/research-and-insights/gender-pay-ga...

"It should be noted that Payscale’s crowdsourced data weights toward salaried professionals with college degrees. When analyzing by race, we restrict our sample to those with at least a bachelor’s degree."

Makes sense. Labor-intensive jobs tend to have higher pay, as well as being nearly exclusively male.

Requesting relevant data is not "dismissing" anything.

Also, a seller that shops around more often for buyers would be expected to earn more than a seller than shops around less frequently.

Is it possible that women shop around less and men shop around more? I can give myself and my wife as an example. She values stability at work and being able to flex time so she can be available for the kids, so she stays put in her job where she has a favorable work environment. I do not care as much about being available for the kids and am willing to risk new workplaces, so I hop around. If we had the same job, the statistics would show she is getting paid less and I am getting paid more, but it would have nothing to do with man or woman.

I would guess women are getting paid less due to discrimination, but I am also guessing there are multiple factors at play.

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