Data for more states here.
51 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 1 Apr
"Full time" is an incredibly misleading category. Amongst full-time workers, men work many more hours than women. Whenever this is studied (in America) and hours worked are actually accounted for the wage-gap all but disappears.
When you account for actual experience (women miss many more work days than men) there's no significant difference left.
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86 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoStranger 1 Apr
You're right, if you imagine going with an anonymous scenario, where you do your work and your employer don't even know your gender, the gap would probably still be there.
If by chance the gender is actually taken into account by some shitty employer, this might be a solution to fix it, it could even help with other problems too, like sexual harassment or mobbing.
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63 sats \ 3 replies \ @oliverweiss OP 2 Apr
At least in Europe, full time contracts are typically very well defined by law and so officially there isn’t any difference in the working hours. It could be different for management type of jobs though. And so if someone works more, it is on the expense of their own free time. Still you may have jobs like docs in hospitals where you see differences in salaries between male and female doctors.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Apr
It's most pronounced in professional class jobs. "Full-time" is defined as an inequality: i.e. working at least 35 hours a week. Within that inequality there's a distribution and in that distribution men work more hours on average.
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63 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss OP 2 Apr
I am not so sure about that. I can speak from my own personal experience. I have always had fixed number of hours in the contract without any operator. Currently, 38.5 hours per week. Labor law even says I cannot have more than 44h per week, or similar, not sure about that. And I think this is in general true in many EU countries. Don’t know much about the rest of the world.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 2 Apr
We're at an impasse, then, because I'm only an expert in American labor economics. I would suggest doing a quick search in the econ literature because someone should have done this analysis for somewhere in Europe.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @mrtali 1 Apr
This post took me to this fact:
There are currently 50.3% men and 49.7% women in the world. Considering that the world population for this year 2024 is at least 8 billion people according to the latest United Nations demographic report:
Approximately 4,040,000,000 men.
Approximately 3,960,000,000 women.
80 million more men than women in the world.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss OP 2 Apr
You are right, I always thought it is the other way round.
(source)
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