Gender pay gap

[Kinser79]

(05-18-2016, 08:54 AM)Bronco80 Wrote: Answering your questions in order:
1) Sure, but a lot of women want to have children (kind of a pretty important part of the human species and all), and many of them want to have a career too, just like men.  Not all parents want both, and there's nothing wrong with that, but in the many cases where they do, there should be a presumption of equal sacrifice.

The facts are thus. Women are the ones who give birth. Generally speaking they take at least a month of parental leave, which cuts into their earnings. Further, mothers with small children are more likely to work part time. As such that too cuts into their earnings. As such assuming that the father is present, who is the one who makes up for the economic slack caused by leave/part-time work?

Unless you have some way for human reproduction to continue without women, the simple fact is that women who will have to make a choice, working their career or having a family.

Quote:2) "Better" is a pretty broad term.  Condoms might not be the most effective, but they're also by far the cheapest and easiest to get.  Women have to go through several other loops to get their common forms of contraception, only made more difficult by needless legal barriers thrown up.

Rubbers when properly used have a 40% failure rate. Oral contraception when properly used has a 2% failure rate. I would say that an increase of effectiveness of 38% constitutes better.

Even so the fact remains that women are in complete control over human reproduction. Contraception options for men are as follows: Condoms or vasectomy. Generally speaking a man is not going to get a vasectomy unless he already has children.

Women on the other hand have pills, diaphragms, implants and a whole range of other options including abortion (a factor that males have no control over).

Quote:3) Actually, in a lot of states women don't have that complete control.  We really need Scalia to get replaced on SCOTUS with someone that might get us pointed in that direction.

Bullshit. In many states an abortion is difficult to obtain. In all 50 birth control pills are relatively easy to obtain with a simple prescription.

Quote:4) I don't believe I'm denying that, what makes you think I am?

If you believe women have agency then even were there a pay gap it would still be a woman's choice to accept less payment than a man. However, there isn't one, and any differences in pay between men and women are subject to other forces besides who has what genitals, namely education, skill, job type and hours worked.