RE: Milo Yiannopoulos; the man twitter banned got a book deal. Currently #2 on Amazon.
January 7, 2017 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2017 at 2:45 pm by CanOfMountainDew.)
It depends what you mean when you say 'wage gap' as to whether it's been proven false or not.
If you mean to say that women are paid less than men by virtue of sexism, that's literally non falsifiable. It's non falsifiable because sexism is a state of mind, and reading minds is impossible. There are instances in which a man and a woman, working the same position, are not paid the same salary. The person employing them would tell you the one making more is more efficient - or give off a myriad of other reasons as to why the higher-paid one is justified in receiving more. They'll tell you everything other than that it's because they're a sexist, and maybe they'd be lying in doing so. One can't know. However, just because we don't conclusively know, we don't get to just assert any explanation we want - that would be a 'god of the gaps fallacy.'
If you mean to say that if you add up all the money women make into a pile, and add up all the money men make into a pile, that the mens pile will be larger; yes, that is true, and nobody objects that this is true. This truism isn't synonymous with, "men make more money than women for the same work because of sexism", though. And if this is what one means, using the term 'wage gap' would be disingenuous. It would be more accurately described as an 'earnings gap.'
If you mean to say that women are paid less than men by virtue of sexism, that's literally non falsifiable. It's non falsifiable because sexism is a state of mind, and reading minds is impossible. There are instances in which a man and a woman, working the same position, are not paid the same salary. The person employing them would tell you the one making more is more efficient - or give off a myriad of other reasons as to why the higher-paid one is justified in receiving more. They'll tell you everything other than that it's because they're a sexist, and maybe they'd be lying in doing so. One can't know. However, just because we don't conclusively know, we don't get to just assert any explanation we want - that would be a 'god of the gaps fallacy.'
If you mean to say that if you add up all the money women make into a pile, and add up all the money men make into a pile, that the mens pile will be larger; yes, that is true, and nobody objects that this is true. This truism isn't synonymous with, "men make more money than women for the same work because of sexism", though. And if this is what one means, using the term 'wage gap' would be disingenuous. It would be more accurately described as an 'earnings gap.'
