10/02/2023
The gender pay gap doesn’t exist because it’s illegal and has been for years.
This was the first thing I saw today when logging in…WHAT???
I promptly responded that legal or illegal, it’s still happening.
Murder, theft, fraud are all illegal, yet these happen everyday, why do we think the gender pay gap is any different?
According to a Nov. 2022 report published by Zippia:
“The uncontrolled gender pay gap is 10.25x worse than the controlled gender pay gap.
That’s because the controlled gender pay gap only quantifies the average numbers for all men and women who work in the same job (i.e., have the same qualifications).
On the other hand, the uncontrolled gender pay gap considers the median salary for all men and women in the U.S., regardless of age, job type, etc.
Knowing that, it’s rather shocking to note that by the end of a 40-year career, women in the U.S. make a whopping $900,000 less than men.”
There are still gaps in the controlled study as well, while a smaller gap, women earn 83.1% of what men earn in the same job in 2022. (More on this one later)
The above are US statistics, the gap is larger, much larger in many other countries.
There are many theories as to why the uncontrolled pay gap is so significant-
🤰🏼Women are impacted significantly by pregnancy and time away from work
👩👧Women are the primary care givers and thus make sacrifices men aren’t expected to make, often impacting their career journey
👩🏽🏫 More women work in lower paying fields than men, like, teaching, secretarial/administrative, child care and jobs paying less than $15/hour
👶🏾 Child care is so expensive, many can’t afford to work and pay for child care due to lower wages paid for work
👷🏽♀️The most interesting stat to me is that the gap is lowest in the construction industry
We STILL have a LOT of work to do, let’s not assume because something is illegal, it isn’t still happening.
