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6 Oct 2021 Conversations with Tyler Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
“If we’re trying to explain gender pay gaps or inequities, and we think there are at least two factors — one is, for a given job, women might be paid less, right?”
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- 6 Oct 2021
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…Well, I think it can be. I in no way, shape, or form want to minimize that. My sense is that gender differences in earnings are not, in the majority, due to factors like that. However, those factors we really want to root out. There’s obviously a difference between dating and romance, and sexual predators and sexual harassment. The fact that we have many so front-page cases about sexual harassment — both heterosexual and homosexual harassment — shows that it exists, and it should be rooted out. How much it is affecting the choices that women make and men make, I think, is not that gigantic. If we’re trying to explain gender pay gaps or inequities, and we think there are at least two factors — one is, for a given job, women might be paid less, right? Yes.…
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