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Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by slt2021 on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:10PM (#42048260)
> 99¢ vs. $1 for men

isn't it on the border of measurement error ? Would it be fair to say, after controlling for some variables the gender gap narrows down to 1% (which is a fairly small number if you ask me).

Like $1000 per year on a median salary in the US

Re:New York Times Tech Workers Go on Strike by interroboink on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:22PM (#42048307)
> isn't it on the border of measurement error?

At least going by that payscale.com link, I don't think so. That is compiled from 600K+ responses, so they have enough data to measure small differences with some confidence, I think. I didn't sign up to download the full dataset though, so I'm mostly going by their claims.

Quoting from the article:

  Although $0.99 may seem very close to $1, the red line in the chart
  below has never crossed the dotted $1 line in blue representing men’s
  pay. Even when women are doing the same jobs, the gender pay gap is
  not zero.
If it were a "lost in measurement error" thing, I would expect that chart to have a lot more noise in it — some years women would be above men, other years below (that said, I do wish the charts had error bars). Instead, it's showing a small-but-consistent difference repeated across the years.