Feminism has and is destroying this country. I hope this equality talk is soon done with, because guess what…everyone is not equal! The United States should be a meritocracy not a place where you get resources based on your gender or race. Ridiculous. The welfare state is going to be the end of the west: see California.

Also, why would someone want their kids to be raised by strangers at a day care? If you do not think that seeing after the families’ needs is a big job then you’re horribly wrong. You cannot buy the type of emotional support that a child needs in order to be raised correctly.

The end of the west: feminism, increased low skill immigration, government being run by special interest corporations, the list goes on….

As a male who does all the housework, PTA conferences, child care, and grocery shopping with zero help from any female of any kind… Get stuffed!

Your post is right-on. I joined the workforce in the late 1980′s, and work in a very male dominated profession (engineering). During my career I have worked for some of the nation’s largest corporations.

I have consistently observed that women tend not to work as hard as men at the workplace. I’ve noticed that very few women choose to study math and engineering disciplines in college. Those who do tend to want to have the shorter work weeks, more “personal time,” and are not as productive as their male counterparts. As technology advances, they tend not to keep-up their skills. When I was a young engineer in the mid 80′s, perhaps 10% of coworkers around my age were female. I currently work for a very large corporation that places a very high value on diversity, but there are zero Sr. female engineers. All of the females are junior, in their early to mid 20′s.

Your observation that attractive women’s productivity is lower than that of not-so-attractive women is also true of men. I’ve noticed that attractive men, especially tall attractive men occupy lofty positions, many of which they do not merit by training or their accomplishments. I’ve lost track of the number of times I have been in a meeting sitting at a table listening to some male Sr. Manager who does not seem to know what he is talking about, and the more he talks, the more I wonder, “how in the world did this guy even become vice president of whatever?” In every case, the guy is attractive, and when the meeting ends and he stands up, it becomes crystal clear. If only I were about 4 inches taller.

If you’re already making 80% of a man’s pay (at full time) and then a 5% reduction per child (likely from passed-over bonuses,etc), then 2 children (the average number) already sets you back to a 70% loss in salary. Add in all the housework, PTA conferences, child care, grocery shopping, and all the other things mums get stuck with(that men traditionally don’t help with) then that’s a raw deal, isn’t it? Who wants to take a 30% or more reduction for twice the work?

It must be nice to be a woman in one of those “socialist” Scandinavian countries who enjoy family-friendly benefits AND a much lower wage gap!

But what about the when the number of hours, the type of job, and the industry are all the same? What we need are reliable statistics about full-time earnings by men and women in at least one specific type of job.

How about a study of earnings at one-year and three-year anniversaries in the *same* type of non-supervisory job. Three separate possible target populations: police officers in Seattle, air traffic controllers in Boston, and untenured professors at 4-year colleges in Baltimore.