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If you’ve ever found yourself shaking your fist at those oversexed, super-lazy Neanderthals (commonly referred to as men) and asking why it is that they make more money than you, a member of the of the large-breasted, order-giving, highly vocalized tribe of mammals commonly referred to as women, then look no further!
[On the other hand, if you have been wondering why I insist on making my sentences longer than the time it takes to order a meal from the Olive Garden then it is very doubtful you will ever find out.]
I have written what I believe is quite possibly the greatest article in the history of articles ever to have existed in the history of the universe! There’s just one problem – the article isn’t on this website.
Actually, it was a guest post over at the almighty personal finance blog known as The Digerati Life called Employment Discrimination, The Glass Ceiling & The Gender Wage Gap.
Here is an excerpt from the post:
In 2006, the United States Census Bureau determined that women earn an average income of $32,515 every year, while men bring home $42,261 worth of bacon -– that’s a difference of $9,746.
Over the average person’s work life (24 to 65 years old) of 41 years, this amounts to men making almost $400,000 more than the average woman. If you invest that same $9,746 every year growing at an annual compounded rate of return of 15%, that amounts to almost $26 million — the equivalent of 15 beach homes, 260 Porsches or 2.6 million Danielle Steel novels.
Now, honestly tell me, who wouldn’t want to read an article with that kind of information!?
That’s right.
So, go get reading!
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An interesting read and some good points made. The hard truth is not always easy to accept.
Indeed it is not Andy, I couldn’t have said it better myself!
Check out the comments this article received on The Digerati Life’s site to see peoples’ reactions to this subject.
I left a comment of my own on that page… its amazing how narrow minded some people can be.
Good article. One thing you may have missed though is the types of jobs women and men often take. Women tend to take jobs that are more relational such as customer service, health field related, and teachers. Men tend to take power jobs such as managerial and CEO. Here’s the kicker? Who determines that the manager is worth more than the customer service agent that keeps the customer. If the customer is the paying person that keeps the business open and the customer service agent possesses skills that keeps this paying customer, why on earth are we paying the managers more?