{"id":43122,"date":"2018-05-08T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43122"},"modified":"2018-04-18T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T14:30:50","slug":"qotd-pay-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/qotd-pay-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Pay inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

It probably doesn\u2019t come as news that airline companies pay pilots more than cabin crew \u2014 but according to the dogma of the gender wage gap, we\u2019re supposed to find this fact troubling. The British government now requires companies to report their raw gender gap \u2014 that is, the difference in the median hourly wages earned by their male and female employees. Ignoring occupational differences, seniority, employment history, hours worked, or any of the countless other factors affecting salaries, these data are misleading at best. Nevertheless, when budget airline EasyJet reported a 51 percent pay gap between its male and female employees, the company knew that its reputation perched on the edge of a PR abyss.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s the whole point of the exercise: simplify statistics to shock people at the seeming injustice done to women and shame companies into action; refuse to compare similar job functions; ignore the fact that, like every other airline, EasyJet\u2019s pilots are disproportionately male, while their cabin crews skew female; forget that almost all carriers compete for the same 4 percent of the world\u2019s female pilots; and whatever you do, don\u2019t mention that the EasyJet CEO, who was in charge of this bigoted organization and also its highest-paid employee until retiring earlier this year, was a woman. The company should be branded with a scarlet \u201c51 percent\u201d until it … does what? Cuts pilots\u2019 pay? Hikes the salaries of female cabin crew? Hires male attendants instead of female? Goes bankrupt?<\/p>\n

Kay S. Hymowitz, “Equal Pay Myths: Activists for wage parity ignore stubborn truths”, City Journal<\/em><\/a>, 2018-04-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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