There is no "wage gap", it's a feminist myth. I'm for equality, but lying about something like that is ridiculous and so many people believe the lie. You also linked an Onion article as "proof", that's like posting a tabloid article and saying you found proof Big Foot married the Loch Ness Monster.

I'll just leave this here

Women are less aggressive in establishing pay as said in the article and are also more likely to leave the workforce. Pay isn't just about paying you for your work. Pay from your employer is also partially an incentive from your employer to stay with them and not go somewhere else. You are an investment by your employer. It costs tens of thousands of dollars to hire and train workers in corporate fields. They don't want you to leave. Women are more likely to jump ship for non-work related reasons - whether that be for family (marriage, maternity), career changes (women change career paths more often than men), and medical (women take more sick days, work less hours, and are more frequently file for disability). Fact of the matter is men are more driven, focused workers in most professional fields. I'm not saying men are always the "better" worker, but in most instances because of social pressures and natural tendencies, men are the more aggressive, career-minded, focused, and driven individuals who work longer hours and take less time off from the job.

The man usually is the one that needs to provide for the rest of the family...

Women are paid less for multiple reasons. One being that many women go on maternity leave, and get a severe reduction in pay while they are on it and once they return they aren't available to work more hours and some even leave the workforce. Also, men are more inclined to take more dangerous, manual labor needed jobs than women. These jobs will pay more because of the high risk in them and the skills required to perform them.

How is this even a thread? Clearly employers feel men do better at a job or else they wouldn't pay them more. It's basic economics.

It's a myth, further study is needed.

How do i feel? I feel its justified. Men are better at most jobs.

Sometimes women can't do a job as well as men, so logically they should get paid less.

I couldn't care less.

I'm not entirely sure that the "wage inequality" has to do with gender. A lot of women in the workplace today feel that they're entitled to something. Maybe their bosses don't raise their pay because they're assholes.

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>Statistics use median average Not an accurate way to report this data, but I won't deny it's a real occurrence. But do I support affirmative action to equalize pay? Not until there's data showing that women receive lower pay specifically because they're women.