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When you actually look at the statistics for single women who do not have children , women earn 96% of what men do. Holy shit
keywords: "single women who do not have children." so what are women supposed to do, forever remain unmarried and childless in order to be fairly paid? what about the women who are married with kids? why should women have to deal with taking a massive pay cut because they decide, like most people in America do, to get married and have children? men do not have to worry about this; on the contrary, fatherhood helps their careers and salary.

"The Motherhood Penalty vs. the Fatherhood Bonus"

Discrimination is embedded in the system, not only against women but especially against women with children.
One of the worst career moves a woman can make is to have children. Mothers are less likely to be hired for jobs, to be perceived as competent at work or to be paid as much as their male colleagues with the same qualifications. For men, meanwhile, having a child is good for their careers. They are more likely to be hired than childless men, and tend to be paid more after they have children. These differences persist even after controlling for factors like the hours people work, the types of jobs they choose and the salaries of their spouses. So the disparity is not because mothers actually become less productive employees and fathers work harder when they become parents — but because employers expect them to.
“Employers read fathers as more stable and committed to their work; they have a family to provide for, so they’re less likely to be flaky,” Ms. Budig said. “That is the opposite of how parenthood by women is interpreted by employers. The conventional story is they work less and they’re more distractible when on the job.”
Men with children are paid the most. Childless, unmarried women come close ($0.96 for every man's $1.00), but once they get married and have kids, the pay gap widens.
Ms. Budig found that on average, men’s earnings increased more than 6 percent when they had children (if they lived with them), while women’s decreased 4 percent for each child they had. Her study was based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from 1979 to 2006, which tracked people’s labor market activities over time. Childless, unmarried women earn 96 cents for every dollar a man earns, while married mothers earn 76 cents, widening the gap.
Resumes/applications from men that imply fatherhood get called back more often, and offered much more pay than women whose resumes/applications imply motherhood.
Ms. Correll co-wrote a study at Cornell in which the researchers sent fake résumés to hundreds of employers. They were identical, except on some there was a line about being a member of the parent-teacher association, suggesting that the applicant was a parent. Mothers were half as likely to be called back, while fathers were called back slightly more often than the men whose résumés did not mention parenthood. In a similar study done in a laboratory, Ms. Correll asked participants how much they would pay job applicants if they were employers. Mothers were offered on average $11,000 less than childless women and $13,000 less than fathers.
Hierarchy of people that employers value: Fathers > Childless women > Childless men > Mothers.
In her research, Ms. Correll found that employers rate fathers as the most desirable employees, followed by childless women, childless men and finally mothers. They also hold mothers to harsher performance standards and are less lenient when they are late.