Sometimes, I really wish I could resort to feminist tactics and accuse men condescending to me of mansplaining and talking over my lived experience.
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I am more than happy for people to explain statistics to me but if they explain that they can't answer my question about whether choices made have anything to do with the wage gap, they can't then claim statistics to be of any further use in answering that question.
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If you claim that the only relevant variables in gender earnings statistics is gender and nothing that comes in later than gender is relevant (and so choices are not) you'll have to accept that you cannot use those statistics to claim that the cause is discrimination.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
The things that come after gender *are* relevant. But they aren't necessarily independent. The choices you make depend on your experience. So if your experience is shaped by discrimination, your "choices" will be, too.
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So wage gap statistics are fairly useless for any political purposes.
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Yes, gender wage gap statistics are fairly useless if your political purpose is definitive proof one way or the other.
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