RaviSez

Every time I take the train on CTA, I see this poster, that complains, in Illinois, a woman earns seventy one cents for every dollar a man earns. Pocket change for her; crisp dollar for him. I've always wondered why an employer would hire a man to do the same job and pay him a dollar instead of hiring a woman and pay her seventy one cents. Makes economic sense, doesn't it? Steven Pinker in his book, The Blank Slate, explores this issue and explains it is not entirely true. While discrimination cannot be entirely denied in every field( and nobody talks of the reverse discrimination in certain fields), women earning seventy one cents for every dollar a man earns is plain wrong. Here's another article on why.


Link [via Dr.Helen]