The ‘Gender Pay Gap’ is a Myth

Got into a mildly heated argument w/ a center-left family member earlier today about the “gender pay gap” – but I held my ground. I went back & double-checked my claims (I always do!) and found out that the “gender pay gap” as its presented by the mainstream press & in the media zeitgeist is in fact so flimsy that even the Nobel committee couldn’t ignore it, & they awarded some Harvard economist named Claudia Goldin the 2023 prize for showing that basically what we’ve all long suspected is true: When you take into account that men work more overtime, & sacrifice free time w/ family & otherwise to work longer hours, the “pay gap” largely disappears – the much-ballyhooed “women make 77 on every dollar earned by men” pay gap meme is basically a statistical fakery – almost entirely explained by market and career choices.