Male/Female pay disparity

[derrida]

Different pay for different professions persists, of course. Nurses aides (89 percent female) have more education than truck drivers (97 percent male), but their median earnings are just 57 percent that of truck drivers. This isn’t discrimination, but a reflection that driving cross-country is unpleasant work. Women tend not to want to do it.

Driving cross country is 43 percent more unpleasant than cleaning up shit piss blood and vomit. Maybe it's just cuz I'm a guy, but I'd rather be a truck driver than a nurses aid.

I think the best explanation for extant disparities is the fact that for the majority the most critical years for ensuring a future of professional success are those between the ages of 25 and 35- these just happen to be the years its most likely for a woman to get knocked up. So, in order to minimize the effects of this confluence we should encourage couples to have kids either before or after this crucial period. To further rectify the penalty that mother nature has so cruelly bestowed upon chicks everywhere, civil society should reclaim the burden imposed on it by antisocial male behavior (vastly higher crime rates, traffic accident rates, etc.) by imposing a masculinity tax.

An important point is that in the majority of circumstances (everyone not aspiring to top-level corporate management) women who make the right choices will earn the same as their male counterparts. Most women, however will not, and for resons that are not entirely self-generated. For this reason alone this controversy will not abate any time soon.