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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That’s 44% more income for 13% more time.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives—or at least more balanced lives.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
I define power as control over one’s life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman--he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage—thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing:
--When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men;
--When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
The United States follows the pattern of men taking the financial risks even within a given field. Women physicians are three times as likely as men to work for the government or an HMO; men physicians are much more likely to be self-employed in a solo practice.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
Pay is about the power we forfeit to get the power of pay. For example, we forfeit power when we work for others, not ourselves, but we get the power of the paycheck when we do that.
Why Men Earn More (2005)
In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.
Why Men Earn More (2005)