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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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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But I fully agree with you. The existence of a gender wage gap is insufficient evidence of discrimination just like the non-existence of a gender wage gap is insufficient evidence of no discrimination.
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Erin, you'd disagree with this claim, right? https://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/1000916831987814400?s=19 …
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There's a lot in there. With which specific claims do you disagree? I'm trying to better educate myself on this topic. I thought it was true, at least, that when the variables Helen mentions are controlled for the gap markedly shrinks.
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Apparently, that can't be counted because choices could depend on gender and discrimination can't be counted because that could depend on gender too. But there is much evidence that differences in interests exist and inform job choices.
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For most people's purposes, choices made do matter even if those choices could be influenced by cultural norms. Eg, we might be concerned about men's greater prison sentences which still exist when variables about types of crime & previous convictions taken into account
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