Harvard Study: "Gender Wage Gap" Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women
The "Gender Pay Gap" Isn't What You Think It Is
That's it, honestly. It isn't much above back-of-a-cigarette-box stuff. This methodology takes no account whatsoever of a whole host of factors that might explain this discrepancy. It ignores the fact that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2017, men worked an average of 8.05 hours in an average day compared to 7.24 hours for women.
They have simply assumed a cause and carried out a slightly grander version of the back-of-a-cigarette-box calculation to support it.
The Institute for Women's Policy Research study fails to account for these differences. Indeed, its authors are airily dismissive of analysis that takes into account "occupational differences or so-called 'women's choices.'"
Rather than starting with an observation (that 80-cent statistic) and examining possible causes, Hartmann and Rose have simply assumed a cause (rampant sexism) and carried out a slightly grander version of the back-of-a-cigarette-box calculation to support it. This isn't how social science research should be done. It is exactly the wrong way round.
"The gap can be explained entirely by the fact that, while having the same choice sets in the workplace, women and men make different choices."
In other words, the difference in male and female earnings at the MBTA was explained by those "so-called 'women's choices,'" which Hartmann and Rose so easily dismissed.
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