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Anyone have links to studies that show what was controlled for to come up with the 78 cents figure?
I think sex discrimination does happen, but I also see a lot of women with children who elect to seek one career path versus another because they want time with their children. I think it's much more rare for guys to do this. On average, I suspect that decisions that women make contributes to the disparity.
I can think of several people who went the PA route rather than the MD route for example.
Unlike AGDee, I also know women who elected to be stay at home mom for until their kids started school and effectively put themselves six years behind anyone who said in the workforce. I see few men who elect to do this.
I do think it's rare these days for companies to deliberately discriminate based on sex, but I also think that the standards men and women are held to on the job can be quite different and I think it can be much harder for women to get promoted beyond a certain point. My guess though it that 15 of the missing 22 cents that women don't earn comes from decisions that the women make.
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