How Much Women Earn Than Men?
Category : Women Business, Women Lifestyle
People always told me that men work more than women, at least in terms of overall hours. And that’s one reason why when you make a general comparison of men’s and women’s earnings in most fields, men usually come out ahead. That’s what Warren Farrell wrote on his book “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap ??? and What Women Can Do About It.” Farrell is a former board member of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Farrell already identified 25 work-life decisions that men and women make in the course of their careers that have a direct bearing on their earning potential. Men are more likely to opt for doing that which can lead to a higher paycheck, including: relocate or travel extensively for work, work in the hard sciences, take jobs requiring greater financial risk, take on more hazardous assignments, or work in unpleasant environments (like prisons or coal mines).
Even among highly paid women who already make over $100,000, founded that they are more likely than men at the same pay level to forfeit some pay in exchange for more free time. Free time here means free from the office and time when women reduce their work hours so they can take care of their families.
That’s why women always seek careers that are more fulfilling, flexible and safe, but pay can be lower because more people compete to be fulfilled, causing the supply to exceed the demand.
Women can end up with a better life on balance while men may end up with more pay in many fields.
From more than 80 such occupations for regular working women that founded by Farrell, there are 39 of the occupations (you can see the list here) that women’s median earnings exceeded men’s earnings by at least 5 percent and in some cases by as much as 43 percent.
Farrel points to careers that have limited opportunities for men, dental hygienist or elementary school teacher for example, because people prefer a woman in those roles. That’s not that much different from law firm clients who years ago may have preferred to deal with a male lawyer, he notes.
Let’s take a look to an example in engineering fields, where a company may get one woman and seven men applying for a job. If the company wants to hire the woman, they may have to pay a premium to get her because she may have more competing offers than her male counterparts. By employing her, the top performer who can boost a company’s profitability, it could helps this company improve its equal-opportunity standing, which in turn can help it secure government contracts.
And that’s why some fields pay women a premium 
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