Do women have lower incomes (on average) because of discrimination?

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Women on the whole make less than men because women experience different things in the workplace and often are not directly employed in some of the highest paying sectors of the economy. At some point or another most working women are going to become pregnant and need to take time off for that. The fact that the United States does not subsidize maternity (or paternity) leave means that women, on the whole, are going to lose money there and incur a gap in earnings with men. Going a bit further, we have the crucial issue of childcare, another area in which many working women are at a disadvantage compared to men, because a lot of them are going to drop out of the workforce and devote time to childrearing. Again, we don't have publicly funded or administered alternatives in the United States, and so that earnings gap is, yet again, reinforced as men don't typically drop out of the paid labor force to take care of children on a daily basis. In addition, a whole host of women do very important and rewarding work as houseworkers, something they are not at all compensated for, which once again goes toward reinforcing the gap in earnings between men and women. A guaranteed basic income policy would do a lot to help out in that regard, helping pay for vital work that is often forgotten or not regarded as actual work, even though without it, no other work would be possible.

It is, I think, faulty to ignore these things when discussing wage parity between men and women. I think that at the present juncture there's far less discrimination involved when it comes to women being hired on an individual basis and individual pay rates, but that, on the whole, it is not off-base to recognize that capitalism itself is a system which subjugates women and discriminates against them by not providing the necessary services which would allow women to maintain wage parity. This is chiefly because capitalism has no interest in women achieving wage parity, because doing so would mean that women could no longer be used as cheap labor to fuel the profits of those who benefit from exploiting them.

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Women on the whole make less than men because women experience different things in the workplace and often are not directly employed in some of the highest paying sectors of the economy. At some point or another most working women are going to become pregnant and need to take time off for that. The fact that the United States does not subsidize maternity (or paternity) leave means that women, on the whole, are going to lose money there and incur a gap in earnings with men. Going a bit further, we have the crucial issue of childcare, another area in which many working women are at a disadvantage compared to men, because a lot of them are going to drop out of the workforce and devote time to childrearing. Again, we don't have publicly funded or administered alternatives in the United States, and so that earnings gap is, yet again, reinforced as men don't typically drop out of the paid labor force to take care of children on a daily basis. In addition, a whole host of women do very important and rewarding work as houseworkers, something they are not at all compensated for, which once again goes toward reinforcing the gap in earnings between men and women. A guaranteed basic income policy would do a lot to help out in that regard, helping pay for vital work that is often forgotten or not regarded as actual work, even though without it, no other work would be possible.

It is, I think, faulty to ignore these things when discussing wage parity between men and women. I think that at the present juncture there's far less discrimination involved when it comes to women being hired on an individual basis and individual pay rates, but that, on the whole, it is not off-base to recognize that capitalism itself is a system which subjugates women and discriminates against them by not providing the necessary services which would allow women to maintain wage parity. This is chiefly because capitalism has no interest in women achieving wage parity, because doing so would mean that women could no longer be used as cheap labor to fuel the profits of those who benefit from exploiting them.

Domestic work is compensated. It isn't taxed. You were saying?

Not being subject to taxation does not compensation make.