I'd be curious to see how the comparisons are made. Let me bring out some ancedotal, unrelated to statistical evidence in my life;
1)My wife's friend spent 150K to get a Master's Degree. She's making something like 34K a year. I think it's something psychology related, forget what exactly. For some reason she can't get licensed as a shrink in IL probably due to what the degree is in.
2)My wife has a BA in University Studies. I have a BS in EET. Guess who makes way more money? If you don't take major in account then you're really selling anything you're doing short.
3)My wife's best friend has a BA in University Studies too.
4)Does actual time worked take any account into that statistic? Not hating on the education majors here, but if you're getting 3 months a year off maybe that's part of the pay gap. And education tends to be very disproportionately women. This includes employment gaps as well; Through my working career my wife has had a lot more of them, while I pretty well have worked constantly through. Over the last 5 years or so she's probably taken 6ish months off riding unemployment.
5)I think that men can be a lot more career oriented; I think that this is somewhat of a carry over from a time long past but ultimately I take a great deal more thought and ponderance on my career than my wife does. It may be she's older than I am too. I have a lot more focus on what my next steps are going to be.
1)My wife's friend spent 150K to get a Master's Degree. She's making something like 34K a year. I think it's something psychology related, forget what exactly. For some reason she can't get licensed as a shrink in IL probably due to what the degree is in.
2)My wife has a BA in University Studies. I have a BS in EET. Guess who makes way more money? If you don't take major in account then you're really selling anything you're doing short.
3)My wife's best friend has a BA in University Studies too.
4)Does actual time worked take any account into that statistic? Not hating on the education majors here, but if you're getting 3 months a year off maybe that's part of the pay gap. And education tends to be very disproportionately women. This includes employment gaps as well; Through my working career my wife has had a lot more of them, while I pretty well have worked constantly through. Over the last 5 years or so she's probably taken 6ish months off riding unemployment.
5)I think that men can be a lot more career oriented; I think that this is somewhat of a carry over from a time long past but ultimately I take a great deal more thought and ponderance on my career than my wife does. It may be she's older than I am too. I have a lot more focus on what my next steps are going to be.
