Just found this article courtesy of the Society for Human Resource Management. See link above.
I found this section of interest, especially the last sentence:
"Previous studies on wage differences by gender have found that roughly half of an observed 20 percent gender gap cannot be explained by the usual factors that drive wages, such as experience, hours worked, occupation, industry, age and the like," said report co-author Beata Caranci, deputy chief economist at TD Economics. "The research leads us to conclude that exits from the labor force, most often related to family or motherhood—not gender—are the culprit behind this 'unexplained' wage gap."
Here's what I know -- one of the logical properties of equality we learned in high school math....
The transitive property states:
* For any quantities a, b, and c, if a = b and b = c, then a = c.
Wage gap logic:
Exits = 'unexplained' wage gap
family or motherhood = Exits
'unexplained' wage gap ≠ family or motherhood
The math doesn't add up to me. Also, I presume motherhood still means female since 99.99999999% of mothers are women (could be more but I'm leaving room for speculation).
I just really can't draw any more conclusions around this report. I'll let you try. Feel free to post a response.
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