What would have been great is a chart comparing men vs women without children. But unless I'm missing something here, the study seems to lack that key comparison.
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Agree, but this highlights men with kids vs women with kids; ‘kids’ being the key.... a reflection of societal and employment/employer factors in gender pay gap
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But once the authors construct the counter-factuals, controlling for bearing children, comparing men (kids or not doesn't make a diff) vs women who did not bear children will highlight gender biases NOT attributable to child bearing. Could have answered this question as well.
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Yep, but in danger of controlling away factors which we may think important/want to do something about (depending on views of inter gender fairness wrt pay)
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It’s a question of what sort of society we want (to which economists do not have an answer!... but they can point out the consequences, one of which, wrt having kids, is that women bear a cost wrt their future earnings)
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What’s the Y-Axis? It’s not %, since the article mentions a 20% hit?
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Think it is, but badly labelled
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I think it would really improve the conversation if we dropped the gender gap framing. Calling it a childcare penalty would have similar emotional weight, but focus the attention better.
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Thing is this study also showed virtually zero men took time off for childcare. It's a catch-22: the gender gap (various reasons) means men earn more, and the higher earner tends to remain employed to maximize household income, perpetuating the discrepancy.
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There’s some super interesting confounding variables there. For example, if women tended to have older partners (which is the case) you could get that effect without any bias at all.
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So for example, in my company we (for other reasons) really tried hard to disincentivize working an extended work week. I can’t prove it, but my suspicion is that this will lead us in this local case to have a much more limited childcare penalty.
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If my framing is gender pay gap, I can dismiss that sort of issue with: well, the people who work more get better compensation. They happen to be men, but what can I do about that? If the framing is childcare penalty, I might see more options.
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It's also self-fulfilling. When there's a pay gap and parents have to decide who should keep the job and who takes care of the baby, the one making the most money keeps their job.
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Not my intention to be provocative. Just trying to assess the matter. If babies are not considered GDP and "building" them is not a Country's investment, and work is paid by hours rather than by something else, was someone promoting this study expecting different final findings?
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@MacMcCannTX Most woman i know go back part time after children. Surely this has been factored in, otherwise just misleading.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Question-begging to call this a "penalty." Denies agency to those who choose to stay home or work less.
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Nothing structural here. Move along.
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It's no use. This is just going to attract a raft of mansplainers saying this is only fair because the women took time off to raise their kids, which is their true role in life. And women saying the same, and that they believe it's a woman's true role in life. So, no foul. *sigh*
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Or maybe this is because women often choose to take time off to raise children, and that doesn't make them bad feminists or victims of the patriarchy.
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Or maybe it’s because society rewards women socially for being SAHMs and penalizes men for being SAHDs.
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