Und Nochmal: Gender Pay Gap

Da gerade der Gender Pay Gap wieder in aller Munde ist hier noch eine interessante Rechnung dazu:

Der Bruttomonatsverdienst von Frauen hierzulande liegt laut WSI-Tarifarchiv der gewerkschaftsnahen Hans-Böckler-Stiftung „bei gleicher Arbeitszeit rund 21 Prozent unter dem der Männer“. Das von den Arbeitgebern getragene Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) hält dagegen: Die Verdienstlücke zwischen Männern und Frauen betrage nur 11 Prozent, würden Struktur-Faktoren berücksichtigt wie Bildung, Alter, Berufserfahrung, Dauer der Betriebszugehörigkeit, Firmengröße. Beziehe man auch noch Babypausen mit ein, schrumpfe die Differenz gar auf 2 Prozent. Damit wäre der verbliebene kleine Unterschied fast weggerechnet.

Ähnliche Berechnungen hatte ich hier schon mal:

Und noch ein paar interessante Zahlen

In a 2013 national poll on modern parenthood, the Pew Research Center asked mothers and fathers to identify their „ideal“ working arrangement.

Fifty percent of mothers said they would prefer to work part-time and 11 percent said they would prefer not to work at all. Fathers answered differently: 75 percent preferred full-time work. And the higher the socio-economic status of women, the more likely they were to reject full-time employment. Among women with annual family incomes of $50,000 or higher, only 25 percent identified full-time work as their ideal. Sandberg regards such attitudes as evidence of women’s fear of success, double standards, gender bias, sexual harassment, and glass ceilings. But what if they are the triumph of prosperity and opportunity?

Sandberg seems to believe that the choices of contemporary American women are not truly free. Women who opt out or „lean back“ (that is, towards home) are victims of sexism and social conditioning. „True equality will be achieved only when we all fight the stereotypes that hold us back.“ But aren’t American women as self-determining as any in the history of humanity? In place of bland assertion, Sandberg needs to explain why the life choices of educated, intelligent women in liberal, opportunity-rich societies are unfree. And she needs to explain why the choices she promotes will make women happier and more fulfilled.

An up-to-date manifesto on women and work should steer clear of encounter groups and boys-must-play-with dolls rhetoric. It should make room for human reality: that in the pursuit of happiness, men and women often take different paths. Gender differences can sometimes be symptoms of oppression and subordination. But in a modern society they can also be the felicitous consequences of liberated choice—of the „free to be you and me“ that women have been working towards for generations.

Auch dazu hatte ich hier schon einmal etwas:

Es scheint vielen Feministinnen unvorstellbar, dass Frauen nicht im gleichen Maße wie Männer Karriere machen wollen und andere Vorstellungen von dem haben, was sie mit ihrem Leben anfangen wollen.