Comments on: Women’s Wage Gap http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2006/05/23/womens-wage-gap/ Just tidbits about money and finance. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:13:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Earning Power http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/2006/05/23/womens-wage-gap/comment-page-1/#comment-466 Earning Power Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:45:00 +0000 http://www.mapgirl.net/mfc/?p=315#comment-466 Warren Farrell is going off of an incorrect premise, that women choose to earn less by going after work in the "pink collar ghetto". Clearly you are not that type. Working in IT gives you an opportunity to earn like a man. However, it may be that you haven't hit the pay gap killer, having a child. A woman who has children tends to earn less, and also tends to not consider outsourcing the raising of her offspring to a nanny, but rather to be hands on in the raising of her kids. Men tend to feel more comfortable insourcing childraising to their spouse. Warren Farrell is going off of an incorrect premise, that women choose to earn less by going after work in the “pink collar ghetto”. Clearly you are not that type. Working in IT gives you an opportunity to earn like a man.

However, it may be that you haven’t hit the pay gap killer, having a child. A woman who has children tends to earn less, and also tends to not consider outsourcing the raising of her offspring to a nanny, but rather to be hands on in the raising of her kids. Men tend to feel more comfortable insourcing childraising to their spouse.

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