Gender Pay Gap — reality or myth? What are the reasons behind the gender pay gap?

There is an objective difference between the average earnings of women and men. How does this difference arise? Is it really only due to discrimination as many militant feminists claim? Or is it related to the different interests of both genders? Let us take a look at some interesting data and facts together.

Introduction

Many politicians resort to so-called “identity politics”, meaning that they do not look at people as individuals, but as members of groups. One group is then pitted against another one in some form of struggle for privileges or leadership. Western societies were able to move rapidly by becoming more aware of people individually rather than as members of groups. Unfortunately, we are witnessing the creation of arbitrary groups constantly returning, especially for political purposes.

It should be emphasized that identity politics automatically creates prejudices and by this means harms the solution of any problem. The solution then does not work with people as individuals, but only with some fictional average representative of the group (usually a minority).

One of the constantly fostered myths is that the gender pay gap, i.e. the difference in the salary of men and women, is caused primarily by stereotypes and discrimination resulting from the rule of men, who prevent women from asserting themselves. We will take a closer look at this phenomenon using more resources and research.

The common claim, that women earn less than men because of gender, simplifies the complex socio-economic question to a question of the single-variable equation type. What we get is a very misleading result, without any hint of a solution. This can be observed in many statements made by politicians — they see a solution in introducing quotas for various positions (in politics, management, company leadership). This solution would not help, but this is not what they would care about. In addition, quotas automatically degrade abilities of women because they claim they are unable to assert themselves. The experience in the case of Norway shows that even if quotas for women are introduced in political representations, there will be no increase in the representation of women in other areas and…