(여성) 남녀임금차이는 여성의 선택의 결과라고 美페미니스트그룹 인정

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Feminist group admits 'pay gap' is caused by women's choices

Toni AiraksinenNew York Campus Correspondent@Toni_Airaksinenon Sep 22, 2017 at 10:15 AM EDT

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has finally admitted that the “gender pay gap” is caused primarily by women’s choices, not discrimination. 美대학교여성연합회曰, 남녀간 임금차이는 근본적으로 여성의 선택에서 기인한 것이지, 성차별에 의한 게 아니다.

In fact, the AAUW's own research suggests that only about 7% of the observed pay gap can be attributed to discrimination, with simple economic factors accounting for the remainder.

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has finally admitted that the “gender pay gap” is caused by women’s choices.

In a recent article on the gender pay gap, AAUW Senior Researcher Kevin Miller concedes that the pay disparity between women and men isn’t caused primarily by discrimination, but rather by the personal and professional choices that women make.

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These choices include the tendency of women to work fewer hours to focus on “domestic work” and accept “reduced job tenure resulting from breaks in labor-force participation to raise children.”

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Miller even notes that women tend to choose lower-paying jobs than do men, pointing out that dangerous jobs such as “construction, manufacturing, and transport” are predominantly done by men, while “most workers in health care and education occupations are women.” 남녀임금차이가 여성의 선택의 결과라는 건 이런 뜻이다: 여성들은 남성들보다 보수가 적지만 위험하지 않은 분야를 선호한다. 남성들은 건축, 제조, 운송 같은 위험한 직업을 주로 지원하는데, 이런 분야는 임금이 쎈 편이다. 반면 여성들은 직업을 선택할 때 남성들보다 덜 위험한 분야인 건강이나 교육 같은 분야로 몰린다. 이래서 남녀간 임금차이가 생길 수 밖에 없으므로, 이것은 여성차별에 의한 남녀임금차이가 아니라, 여성자신의 선택에 의한 남녀임금차이인 것이다. 대부분의 남녀임금차이는 이런 이유에서 생기는 것이고, 극소수이지만 실제적 남녀차별에서 남녀임금차이가 발생하기도 한다고 이 기사는 말하고 있다.

The problem is that male-dominated professions tend to offer higher pay, he says, asserting that “parking lot attendants (usually men) are paid more to watch cars than full-time child care workers (usually women) are paid to care for children, even though child care workers are increasingly being pushed to earn a college credential.”

Citing data from the U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, though, he also confirms that not only are women more likely to work part-time, but also that “among full-time workers, men work longer hours on average than do women.”

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While Miller cites women’s choices as the cause of the pay gap, he doesn’t suggest that women’s choices can solve it.

In response to a common question the AAUW receives regarding whether women should “choose higher-paying jobs,” Miller is mum on whether this could make a difference, merely noting that women can’t avoid  “societal bias by choosing a career in an occupation that is higher paying.”

The AAUW, which celebrates seven different equal pay days, has campaigned relentlessly over the past few years to argue that the gender pay gap is due to discrimination, but this appears to be the first article in which the organization takes a more nuanced approach to the issue.

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Indeed, Miller acknowledges that to the extent that discrimination against women actually does influence the pay gap, only about “7 percent” is explained by gender, according to AAUW research, while another study pegged the figure at 8 percent.

“The gender pay gap is an estimate of the actual gap in pay between men and women, not an estimate of the effect of discrimination,” he explains, though he then goes on to argue that discrimination is still a problem.

“These estimates of the gap due to gender bias and discrimination are smaller than the overall gender pay gap, but the gap due to bias and discrimination is still substantial,” he concludes. “Regardless of how much of the pay gap is due to gender bias and pay discrimination, the size of the overall gap—the difference in actual pay received by women and men—is still an important indicator of the economic inequality faced by women in the United States.”

Campus Reform reached out to the AAUW for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.