Where did this statistic come from?

Question

I've often heard the statistic "Women make 70 cents to a man's dollar." Many people use this statistic, but I've never seen a source for it. Where does it come from?

Answer 1

Probably the US Labor Department - try looking there.

Answer 2

It probably emerged from a game of Chinese Whispers, just like the Wage Gap myth. The actual statistic is closer to 1/6.

Answer 3

Feminists. Therefore it is credible.

Some people say that this gap exists because women choose a different work/life balance to men. This is debunked by the 70c to a man's dollar statistic that feminists cite.

EDIT: And Baba Yagas tl;dr study which in summary says that there is less money in a company the more females are involved, thus negatively reflecting on women's money making capacity, is also further proof that women are paid less than men.

Answer 4

Sounds very much like a specious statistic used to support a propagandist view point, like the Feminist who said that ALL men are rapists. Remember You have a right to challenge anything that anyone says about You as an individual or as a member of a gender. If that person cannot substantiate Their accusations of references, and You have been offended, then take Them through the courts, and teach Then the difference between 'Lies, Dammed Lies and Statistics".

Answer 5

The wage gap is a statistical indicator often used as an index of the status of women's earnings relative to men's. It is also used to compare the earnings of other races and ethnicities to those of white males, a group generally not subject to race- or sex-based discrimination. The wage gap is expressed as a percentage (e.g., in 2005, women earned 81% as much as men) and is calculated by dividing the median annual earnings for women by the median annual earnings for men.

The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who hold the same job and do the same work. At the time of the EPA's passage, women earned just 58 cents for every dollar earned by men. By 2005, that rate had only increased to 81 cents, an improvement of less than half a penny a year. Minority women fare the worst. African-American women earn just 69 cents to every dollar earned by white men, and for Hispanic women that figure drops to merely 59 cents per dollar.

The wage gap between women and men cuts across a wide spectrum of occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2005 female physicians and surgeons earned 60.9% of the median weekly wages of male physicians, and women in sales occupations earned just 63.4% of men's wages in equivalent positions.

If working women earned the same as men (those who work the same number of hours; have the same education, age, and union status; and live in the same region of the country), their annual family incomes would rise by $4,000 and poverty rates would be cut in half.

Answer 6

I forget the source, but it came out in the 1970s, when feminists used their typical manipulation of statistics tricks.

The "statistic" includes women who stay home by choice.

Answer 7

In 1985, a sociologist named Lenore Weitzman published "The Divorce Revolution ". She claimed that in the year after divorce women's standard of living decreased by a whopping 73 percent while men enjoyed an increase of 43 percent.
This statistic has become one of the philosophical bases for deciding child custody and property division in divorce cases. It has also altered public perceptions of men, women, and divorce. It was cited hundreds of times in news stories, 'scholarly' studies, and law review articles and was regarded so clearly as holy writ that President Clinton cited it too in his budget proposal as part of his attack on "deadbeat dads".
Feminism elevated this as fact in all cases of men versus women's earnings.

The ONLY problem with this 'research' is that it was WRONG.

Subsequent studies have shown her research terribly flawed, probably intentionally so but it was touted by feminists and their apologists as verified truth. For over a decade it was produced, announced and proclaimed as factual.
Do an Internet search on "Lying Lenore Weitzman" and see how many hits you get.

The so-called "wage gap" is sleight-of-hand. It is illegal to pay someone less based on their sex. Feminists use 'housewives' income as well as the fact that many women choose part-time and disconnected periods of employement to compare with full-time male workers of long senority as their basis for unequal pay.
When 'like' is compared to 'like', the pay difference overall is actually in favor of women slightly.

Answer 8

when the jobs guys do went to women because of the guys going to war in the forties led management to pay less because they were all based on bull work and woman just couldn't get the same productivity, so they got hooked into it as a way of saving money when the differentialities were apparent

Answer 9

Pre- women's liberation...Probably created by a wife beating loser who forced his woman to slave over a hot stove while he called her names threatened to beat her up if dinner ain't done by the time the news comes on. In most cases, women are better suited for work that pays better these days...Intellectually, Morally, as well as emotionally.

Answer 10

old saying