Harvard Study: "Gender Wage Gap" Explained Entirely by Work Choices of Men and Women
FEE.ORG -- To measure sexism in earnings, we need to look at men and women doing the same job at the same place. A new study [2018] from Harvard does just this with data from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). The MBTA is union shop with almost no scope for a sexist boss to favor men over women. And yet, even here, female train and bus operators earn less than their male counterparts. "The gap of $0.89," the authors concluded, "can be explained entirely by the fact that, while having the same choice sets in the workplace, women and men make different choices." For example, male train and bus drivers worked about 83% more overtime than female ...
