Inflation Adjusted, Men Making Less Money Than in 1979, Women Are Doing Better

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29 points·hammock··8 comments

This phrasing feels gross for some reason, like I get the feeling the title writer was trying to imply a zero sum game.

Yes, author is seeming to emphasize an artificial competition and tends to hyperbole: “Men are getting clobbered, down 4.2 percent”

clobbered? 4% is clobbered?

Compared to housing prices, everybody is getting clobbered but the landlord/ceo class.

That's a funny way to say that women are still making less than men

When you control for different career choices, women make the same. However:

Women die far less at work: http://phsinverter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/workplace-...

Not to mention work place injuries and disability from a lifetime of difficult physical labor.

Also note:

"Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, and control or influence 85% of consumer spending"

They control most of the money despite not actually earning it.

https://girlpowermarketing.com/statistics-purchasing-power-w...

Looking specifically at the data presented in the article, the headline is damned suspect. But looking at what you've cherrypicked for me, I find it interesting that you conflate "control or influence" with "control."

"Women drive 70-80% of consumer spending while men control the remaining 20-30%."

Why do you think 80% of commercials with a couple in it, the man is a bumbling idiot and the woman comes in to save the day with product?

https://blog.gitnux.com/male-vs-female-spending-statistics

I'll take your insistence that we talk about anything but TFA as agreement that its title is baity af.

AKA, not nearly as many women worked in 1979 as do today.

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