Comment by Nelkins

7 years ago

Agree. When you perform an online search for articles on the "wage gap myth," the majority of the articles seem traceable back to her.

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Nelkins

malvosenior 7 years ago

It's because even though there is no data to support the wage gap, it's very unpopular to question it. Christina Hoff Summers is a pioneer in the field of gender equality and has paid a huge price by actually investigating these issues. It's a risky position to take in today's political climate so not many have followed her footsteps.

astura 7 years ago
>there is no data to support the wage gap
This is false.
https://www.epi.org/publication/what-is-the-gender-pay-gap-a...
>it's very unpopular to question it.
Also false, it's very popular (and almost cliché) to dismiss it.
>Christina Hoff Summers... has paid a huge price by actually investigating these issues.
And what price would that be? She seems extremely successful.
http://www.aei.org/scholar/christina-hoff-sommers/
- malvosenior 7 years ago
  
  From your link:
  "$3.27 less per hour than men. The median hourly wage is $15.67 for women and $18.94 for men.
  The gender wage gap is a measure of what women are paid relative to men. It is commonly calculated by dividing women’s wages by men’s wages, and this ratio is often expressed as a percent, or in dollar terms. This tells us how much a woman is paid for each dollar paid to a man. This gender pay ratio is often measured for year-round, full-time workers and compares the annual wages (of hourly wage and salaried workers) of the median (“typical”) man with that of the median (“typical”) woman; measured this way, the current gender pay ratio is 0.796, or, expressed as a percent, it is 79.6 percent (U.S. Census Bureau 2016). In other words, for every dollar a man makes, a woman makes about 80 cents."
  It's meaningless to compare different positions pay to each other. "Typical" men vs "typical" women doesn't tell us anything about potential discrimination.
  
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