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To: TimF who wrote (2352)	11/20/2003 2:45:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 7936

Most of the studies don't control for factors like experience, education, and pauses in peoples career to raise faimiles. Some just ignore the issues. Others try to argue that they shouldn't be accounted for. I did find information from, among other sources, a study by The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Beureu of Labor Statistics ______________ "...The real deal on the wage gap is that women and men who work comparable jobs generally earn comparable wages, plus or minus a few cents. The actual gap is closer to three cents on the dollar, according to independent and well-respected research. A 1993 study by economist June O'Neill, using data from the Department of Labor's huge database (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) and published in the Journal of Labor Economics, for instance, found that childless women age 27-33 earned 98 percent as much as their male counterparts. This two-percent difference suggests that motherhood, not gender, is a more likely explanation of wage differences. Yet the NCPE contends that when women earn less, it's because they're women. Ergo, discrimination. Never mind that workplace discrimination has been outlawed since the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Never mind, too, that a gender-based wage gap makes no sense. If women are so much cheaper to employ, why aren't companies dumping their male employees in favor of females?..." townhall.com _____________ WOMEN'S WORK Establishment feminist groups have dubbed April 8 "Pay Equity Day" - supposedly it takes American women a year and 98 days to make what a man does in a year. A new publication by Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba offers a much-needed reality check. Released today, Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America (published by the Independent Women's Forum and AEI Press) counters the conventional wisdom behind the wage gap and other alleged evidence of systematic economic discrimination against women. Among the data cited: Among childless people ages 27 to 33, women's earnings are close to 98 percent of men's. To order a copy of the publication, contact the Independent Women's Forum at 1-800-224-6000. nationalreview.com ______________ "While taking various factors into account greatly reduces pay differences between the sexes, a small gap typically remains. But whether it is two cents or five, one cannot assume that discrimination is its cause. Salaries can differ among equally qualified women doing the same work, and we readily accept that something other than discrimination explains this. It seems only logical to grant that the same may be true when the higher paid individual is male. Likewise, statistics reveal a few college majors where female graduates earn up to 30% more than similarly situated males. Click here for details - stats.bls.gov . It makes little sense to argue that sex discrimination is the only possible explanation for males earning more than females unless we do the same when the opposite occurs." nationalreview.com _________ Other links washingtonpolicy.org equityfeminism.com dadi.org reason.com nationalreview.com _________________ Even a site advocating higher pay for women and claiming women are not paid fairly notes that - "Women, however, have fewer years of experience in higher education than men, and this is linked to the distinctive way in which women find they must balance work and family life. Women are far more likely to be working part-time than men, and to be doing so because of family responsibilities. Similarly, far more women than men have left work in higher education for reasons relating to family life." before attempting to deflect this point with the following weak argument. "This research does not support human capital arguments that these issues are simply matters of choice for men and women, since it is clear from the qualitative data gathered in the survey that women with dependent children feel they have very little choice." nteu.org.au