There oughta be a law…

Persistent pay gap could result from greater male risk tolerance, higher pay for male athletes, professional musicians | AEIdeas.

Even with perfect pay parity by gender in most occupations in the labor market, wouldn’t the three factors above (among many possible other ones) contribute to persistent gender pay gaps when comparing salaries nationwide by gender that have nothing to do with employer-based discrimination against women?

But we can still fix it with a law, even if it isn’t “fair”.

A follow up thought is: How much is the last 5 – 10 per cent of “fairness” worth?

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