Pay Gap Thesis

Hilary Clinton once said, “last time I checked, there’s no discount for being a woman. Groceries don’t cost us less”. This statement is true. Something that is also true is the fact that the gender wage gap is not based on discrimination and is something that is directly influenced by the worker as a person: not as a gender. This lie has been spread around quite a bit lately, partly due to the recent presidential election, and it is just one of those things that is heard so many times that what was fallacy turns into fact. This preconception of a gender wage gap made by many Americans, young and old, is fueled by the vast amounts of misinformation floating around today; however, there is good information about the falsehood of the gender …show more content…
So, despite attending one of the highest institutes of knowledge in America, these women still believe that they will be underpaid upon entering the nation’s workforce. This belief could be due largely in part of the White House, where its website dedicated to Equal Pay boasts that “On average, full-time working women earn just 78 cents for every dollar a man earns” (Don't Buy into The Gender Pay Gap Myth). Claudia Goldin, an economics professor at Harvard University, believes otherwise about this topic though. She argues that “once you account for a number of factors, including taking time off from work and different careers, then there aren’t tons of evidence that it's true discrimination" (Harvard Prof. Takes Down Gender Wage Gap Myth). What Professor Goldin is referring to as factors are the difference in hours, prior experience, mentality, and the aforementioned, taking time off work, and different careers, not level of