Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Train Operators [pdf]

Re:Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Tr... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:22PM (#18652617)

TLDR:

> Mechanically, the earnings gap can be explained in our setting by the fact that men take 48% fewer unpaid hours off and work 83% more overtime hours per year than women. The reason for these differences is not that men and women face different choice sets in this job. Rather, it is that women have greater demand for workplace flexibility and lower demand for overtime work hours than men.

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Re:Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Tr... by b1gtuna on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:38PM (#18652700)

So the gap here is entirely due to choices made directly by the employees?

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Re:Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Tr... by misterpigs on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:02AM (#18656179)

Headlines should reflect this finding but then that wouldn't garner as many views. It seems that this pay difference argument is often framed as something done maliciously or purposefully by the employer instead of neutral decisions made in response to decisions made by the employee.

Naturally whomever is caring for children will want more flexibility at work and receive different pay to accommodate this, regardless of if that person is a man or a woman.

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Re:Why Do Women Earn Less Than Men? Evidence from Bus and Tr... by fizwhiz on Monday December 10, 2018 @08:37PM (#18652692)

While that is a rather uncharitable reduction of the arguments made, I'm not sure why people are downvoting you.

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