Originally Posted by Oracle

I responded to this myth previously.

I know women make less than men if you use the method of total wages earned over a lifetime, and that's due to more women taking time off for stuff like maternity leave. However, in that time I brought it up, I also posted an article that cites a study that showed a female candidate for a position as a lab manager would receive an initial salary offer a couple thousand dollars lower than a male candidate, despite the resumes being submitted being identical except for the first name of the candidate being either female or male, and also rate the male as more competent. The same article also cites a study that shows that, as greater percentage of women make up the population of profession, the overall wages in that field also drop. This is not due to females being devalued, but because males are viewed as more valuable than women. This discrepancy is also found in another study, also cited in that same article, that compared physician salaries on a yearly basis and found that, compensating for education, position, years of experience, and other factors, that female physicians would be paid substantially less with their salary than their male counterparts.

Here's the article again if you don't want to go looking back for it: https://www.usnews.com/opinion/civil...money-than-men

So ya, I'm aware of the "myth", and it's quite bogus. Wage discrimination is more complicated than just $.78 to the dollar, but it's also doesn't mean it's nonexistent because the sound bite is misleading. That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.