> **"Jim Devine" <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> *Miss Utah has been made laughed at for that answer, but what's > *> *interesting is that mainstream economists have a very similar answer: > *> *having more education is the solution to all problems.
On 6/18/2013 1:20 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Certainly, having less education isn't the solution to all problems. With regard to the earnings difference between women and men, much of the disparity comes after formal education is completed. Comparing men and women with the same level of eduction, the earnings gaps are small (or perhaps zero) for the first few years after formal education. The gap grows after that time, indicating that the earnings profile for men is steeper then that for women. The mainstream economist believes that these men are acquiring more on-the-training then women, and it is this training that widens the earning gap. Affirmative action within the educational system has produced some positive results. (Although I am not sure why progressives see the proletarianization of women a good result.) On-the-job discrimination is where women face the greater challenge. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
