That Male-Female Wage Gap

You’ve heard about the “gender wage gap.” That fable goes like this: since women in the aggregate earn only 79% of what men earn in the aggregate, women “earn 79% of what men earn for doing the same work.” You get extra points for brain-wave activity if you asked: “Wait, how did ‘for doing the same work’ get added onto that?” I’ll get to that in a minute. The automobile manufacturer Audi just released an ad for virtue-signaling purposes to let us all know how outraged they are that women suffer from a 21% pay gap. Right now the ratio … Continue reading That Male-Female Wage Gap