It has been shown
that if men take an extended time off work, when they return they are penalized more than women for a similar gap, as far as wages and promotion opportunities are concerned.
It's also true that, up to the age of 30, the median wages of women are greater than that of men.
It's only after a significant portion of them leave work for an extended amount of time to have children that the wage gap appears.
All of these are true statements. Read into them what you will. My apologies if any of these facts cause dissonance with anyone's chosen world-view.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 9 Mar 2022, 12:18,
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Women's lifetime earnings are less than men
largely due to childbearing being an exclusively female role. However. if men take an extended time off work it could be because they went to jail, or took an extended holiday (sorry "went travelling": I am a traveller, you are a tourist, they are trippers).
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