There Is a Gender Gap in Tech Salaries

Dan is right to point out the sloppy analysis in the Quartz piece. Unfortunately, I think he is also misreading that chart and the report[1]. The chart in the post shows salaries by major; it ignores what these people did with their major. Page 17 of the report shows salaries by occupation; that chart shows no gap in "Math, computer, and physical science occupations" and "Engineers".

I think the evidence shows that women who do go into the tech industry get paid the same as men, but that either not as many women who get the degrees go into the industry or some portion of the men who get them take them into one of the occupations noted as having a significant gender salary gap.

[1] http://www.aauw.org/files/2013/02/graduating-to-a-pay-gap-th...

OP is kind of missing the point IMO.

The gender gap discussion is only relevant if we find out that women makes less because they are women. I.e. if everything else is equal the pay-check is determined by their gender. Now we might be able to show that but I don't believe the OP shows that.

Instead what it shows (I believe) is that men are better at selling themselves. Men "know" they are right (even when they aren't) and that confidence transcend into how people perceive you and later to their paycheck. The reason why men know they are right is a much more interesting question and where the battle for the sexes really should be taking place.

Here is a good read on that.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/2011...

From that article "...bright girls believe that their abilities are innate and unchangeable, while bright boys believe that they can develop ability through effort and practice. ..."

Grades in this context have nothing to do with your income as no-one really get a pay-check because they have good grades.

I have never when I have done job-interviews even looked at someones grades and I don't think the industries in question do that really (unless you have exceptional grades of course but very few do).

Sure my experience is anecdotal but I simply don't see the gap in salaries having anything significant to do with the genders but rather with how guys are able to sell themselves.

Another way to frame this discussion could be. Men makes more than the average because they are better at selling themselves than women are. Not because they are better at what they do.

Discussion of the blog post this is referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334659