Kay Hymowitz, as I've said before, wrote the best essay on marriage equality I've ever read. In it she pointed out the marriage gap, the difference in money and means that married people have raising children compared to the unmarried. Feckless digs up some interesting facts that suggest that the gender gap (the disparity between wages earned by women vs men) is really the marriage gap in disguise. The following is just a taste of the facts in the articles linked to in this post...
- When I did the research for Why Men Earn More in 2005, I discovered that nationwide never-married women who had never had children earned 117% of the wages of never married men who had never had children.
- The statistical analysis, which included these and other variables, produced an adjusted gender wage gap between 4.8 percent and 7.1 percent. The gap shrinks to almost nothing when men and women of equal backgrounds and tenure are compared, according to another study of young, childless men and women.
Have a happy 9-9-9
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