Women earn less than Men

[GrandizerII]

Let's believe a 'study' of a few hundred people and spin it so that it's supposed to represent the entirety of the Western World. A few hundred people, that what it was wasn't it? A single study of a few hundred people. Hardly representative.

I've not read the study in full, but imagine they reached a conclusion they wanted to prove before starting the study. Like was the case with those people selling those baseball cards in order to try and prove Ebay is racist. Maybe there is some  gender discrimination in the country where you live (because it's backwards maybe), but where I live there are laws in place to prevent such a thing. And people don't wake up one morning and decide women are going to be paid less. It is conspiratorial to suggest such a thing.

1. A sample size of a few hundred can work if it can be shown to be representative of the target population (normally by random selection but other selection types could work depending on the aims and what you're trying to represent). In the case of this study, the population is science academics hiring students for lab positions.

2. I live in Australia. Of course, there are laws to stop blatant/obvious discrimination. Again, I'm referring to the subtle and subconscious type that even the laws of your country probably have not adequately addressed.