Wage inequality for the fairer sex.

Big topic recently, and obviously one that isn't easily solved or explained away. I listened to parts of the president's speech on it and he painted a picture that it was a MUCH larger issue for minorities. Not really sure how it's relevant to the topic, or even true relatively...so:



Strangely enough, wage inequality between sexes is much less of an issue for blacks than any other demographic. Seems odd to bring ethnicity into this issue when the biggest relative gap is for white women, compared to their male counterparts. Anyway, I thought the chart was interesting because it broke the gap down by education.

I expected it to be less of an issue based on education because in general women do well in college. Vet schools, PT schools...you name it, professional schools in medicine have more women than men, at least in my experience. Not sure how to process all of the income earning folks in these categories (women getting advanced degrees in teaching disciplines that don't pay relatively as well as what most men might pursue as an example), but it seems like something that could absolutely be a non-issue.

There were pretty much only white guys in the more rigorous classes I took at LSU, and outside of prerequisites it's totally open to everyone. Give the effort you want, choose your own path...that's America. If you want to slave away like a fool to earn money...do it. White guys are suckers for it, doesn't mean it's an exclusive endeavor. Obviously Asian men are suckers for it too.

The issue that the fairer sex is paid less for the same job is upsetting, but not something I accept as reality. White women with the same education level as white men get paid less as a group...yea OK, I buy that. Seems like it's not something terribly difficult to explain away...what jobs do they pursue? I'd bet the lower quality of life, higher paying jobs are predominantly pursued by men. We're idiots.

Same for every education level, we're the suckers not the blessed.

My longest post ever.