(February 7, 2018 at 1:42 pm)alpha male Wrote: Long but interesting read:
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can...r-pay-gap/
In short, a study found that male Uber drivers earn about 7% more per hour than females.
The Uber algorithm doesn't even know the gender of drivers, so that's not a cause.
The researchers looked at selection by riders and found no discrimination against women there either.
The main explanations were:
1. Men drive a little faster and so complete more rides per hour.
2. Men stick with Uber longer than women, and so gain experience and better know profitable practices, like when and where to drive.
Since discrimination has been ruled out, is the difference in outcomes a problem?
Should Uber volunteer - or be forced - to bump women's pay 7% so that outcomes are the same?
There's a really good exposition on this (and really quite interesting) on a recent episode of Freakonomics. Well worth the listen.
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-can...r-pay-gap/
(February 8, 2018 at 1:57 pm)Shell B Wrote: It's not my job to mollycoddle them. People who are scared of words should learn to understand context better.
And this, honestly, is where the GOP wins. They care about messaging to the lowest common denominator.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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