Feminism and the Wage Gap

Type “wage gap” in Google and look at the first search suggestion it gives you. This is what appears on your screen:“Wage gap myth”. Current day feminism is like a snowball of beliefs that turn out not to be true, and now it’s too big of a thing to stop as it rolls downhill (like some other things) ready to careen into us all.

Each year, statistics come out about earnings, and people are constantly comparing how much they earn to how much others earn. Women will compare how much they earn compared to men, and if their number is lower, the whole world turns upside down. There are reasons why their numbers are lower, and no, it’s not because the government is controlled by sexist white male pigs.

Sometimes you have to look past the numbers and think with some reason. Women don’t get paid less than men. Women may seek different careers than men. Women may take off more time than men. If you would rather watch a video than read, watch this woman explain why feminists have been wrong all along and this generation of feminism needs to correct the previous generation’s mistakes. 

When you think of a high paying job, what do you think of? For me, I think of a doctor. Then think of a doctor; what gender do you think of? I think of a male. Now you may be saying, “Hey, that’s stereotyping.”

Well let me explain.

Yes, stereotyping CAN be a bad thing, but stereotypes are usually formed by years of repetition. Doctors have always been a field dominated by men. A 2014 census by the Federation of State Medical Boards found that 66% of physicians were male. It’s not stereotyping if it is true. If women are upset that there are more male doctors, then they should be upset at themselves for not following that career and getting paid more. It is nobody’s fault…except their own.

There is also a belief that even if they are in the same career, men still end up getting paid more than women. Well, according to Folio’s 2015 Advertising Sales Salary Survey, women out earn men in every level of sales jobs. Women out earned men from $300 at the director level, up to $8,600 more for female account executives.  Why do women make more than men in this instance? Do bosses in the sales industry perceive their female employees more important than their male employees? Is it because they are more attractive and can use that to sell more? Why aren’t feminists complaining about equality in the sales field?  Feminists will see a statistic where men make more in a certain field and a whole myth will be made up, but if they see an instance where women make more, they’ll look over it.

There are reasons why men make more in certain fields. Sometimes women get pregnant and they decide to take time off to take care of the baby more often than men do. It’s not a man’s fault that he does not give birth. Do not point your fingers at us.

According to ABC news, women are 46% more likely to call in sick for a few days than men. Also, for some fields such as doctors, women will go into the lower paying specialties, such as pediatrics and family medicine while men dominate the higher paying specialties such as cardiology and anesthesiology.

Think about this for a second. How do you expect to make more money than someone if you work fewer hours and work a lower paying job?

You can’t.

Feminists need to think reasonably about problems, and not just point the finger at whoever they want. You can’t just expect to get equal rights by doing less work. The way you prove the statistics wrong is by working for it. Instead of complaining about all the rights it seems they do not have, feminists need to start realizing, and appreciating, the equality they do have. Women in the United States have so many more rights than women around the world, and for that to go to waste is just like a slap in the face to those women. Here in America, women are able to get an education, a job, and just live a life without being controlled by anybody.

Women can live the same life of any man in America, and if that is not equality, then nothing is.