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Fascinating and weird wrinkle to the wage gap conversation: Single women, married women, and single men all make about the same amount of money. It's MARRIED men who vastly out-earn everybody else. https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2018/december/married-men-outearn-single-men …pic.twitter.com/tsrYegqVtq
The researchers suggest this isn't because having a wife makes men earn more, but rather that high-earning men are more likely to marry. On the flip side, we also know that lower earnings by women are mostly driven by those with kids.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/upshot/the-gender-pay-gap-is-largely-because-of-motherhood.html …
So probably part of what's happening here is that married men are taking on more of the responsibility of financially supporting their growing families. Which, of course, there's no essential reason for them to do more than women. (Once they get past the childbearing part.)
Many years back, Sandy Korenman and I suggested that marriage makes men more productive. https://www.jstor.org/stable/145924?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents …
Very interesting. Would love to see an update to this study.
I have a sort of ecological explanation as Chapter 5 in my book: Strong communities support marriage more and are correlated with stronger jobs and education >>https://www.amazon.com/Alienated-America-Places-Thrive-Collapse/dp/0062797107/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1532547794&sr=1-1&keywords=alienated+america …
Because married men have a support at with a wife keeping a home, raising kids, making meals, etc. So the married man can focus on only working for money in all their waking hours.pic.twitter.com/kqXAf7y3b9
Or... women are attracted to high earning men, and so those on good career tracks are more likely to marry.
You just made the argument for hypergamy.
I am in favor of hypergamy, it makes sense.
But it flies in face of feminist rhetoric. Hypergamy is fine just as long as women are honest with themselves about it.
Employers invest in people with the most potential AND the least risk (of leaving). There’s a perception that married men with families are the least likely to leave ( less risk). Risk is the missing dimension here.
Interesting that companies don’t apply the same perception to married women with families. There is no question, though, that (when I was working), if anything came up with the kids, the perception was that it was Mom’s responsibility to handle it.
You can get good data on employer turn by gender and marital status. Don’t have access now. But overall, it’s not a 2 dimensional explanation. More like 30 +
2 dimensional is always too much to hope for.
Thomas Sowell pointed this out in the 80s.
And yet many are still surprised by the “fascinating and weird” idea that people responsible for financially supporting families often do what it takes to increase their income...
Lots of reasons, one probably being that men who are financially stable are more attractive to woman as husbands rather than just boyfriends, and men who are more financially stable are more likely to seek a stable marriage relationship rather than a series of girlfriends.
It's amazing that something this obvious seems beyond the comprehension of so many
It’s too simple for many of the dedicated. You have to have nefarious, systematic structures like the patriarchy, as explanations. When the answer is simple, common sense evolutionary sexual selection strategy, there isn’t much left for the gender studies departments.
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