At my place of employment, both sexes make the same rate of pay. My wife, a pharmacist, makes top pay along with other women and is equal to the guys.

I do know that there are studies that say on the surface women do make less. However, these studies say that when adjusted for other factors the difference virtually disappears.

For instance, whether it be right or wrong the caregiver for children is generally the woman. So if one parent is going to drop out of the work force for several years during the early years for a child, that person will be the woman. As a result when she comes back into the work force she is several years behind her contemporaries on the current trends and practices. Many times her salary level is compared to those that she started out with and not those in real world years worked. For instance if she worked 2 years then dropped out for 3 years, when she comes back her pay is compared often to someone who has been working for 5 years and not 2. So she will look under paid.

At the same time I knew someone who was a vice president at a bank, not a local bank. She evidently was very good at what she does because after she retired they hired her back as a consultant. Several years ago she was told in code because of sex that she hit the glass ceiling. She could continue working but many perks were taken away, her responsibilities were reduced, and she would get no more wage increases. She retired, but then as I said was hired back as a consultant.

http://www.businessweek.com/careers/managementiq/archives/2008/11/the_gender_pay.html

Ed Wichmann Sr.:

As a husband of a working wife and a father of a working daughter who spent 40 years of his working career hiring both male and female workers but never responsible for setting their pay rates, I can say with certainty that Ed Wichmann Sr. is either nutty as a fruitcake or fruity as a nutcake. He takes a few obvious exceptions and makes them the rule. The union positions he uses as examples represent only about 6 percent of the workforce and I have serious doubts that the female 51.1 percent of the population are fairly represented in all those “equal” jobs.

OMG!

I can’t believe it. I actually agree with Iconospastic on something.

Nearly every woman I know makes more than I do. This is the guarded secret on the side of the so-called fairer sex: men don’t run the world, women do. Remember the Greek face that launched a thousand ships? Well, her face had nothin’ to do with it.

OK… It partly had somethin’ to do with it.

I agree with icomonplastic (sorry, your chosen screenname is just too pompous for me to repeat) completely. Ed’s screed is more of an endorsement for wider Union representation than an indictment of gender pay-gap theory.

EJ Rotert:

“Nearly every woman I know makes more than I do. This is the guarded secret on the side of the so-called fairer sex: men don’t run the world, women do.”

John Kerry had the same problem and partially resolved it by marrying two of them. There are no reported studies to confirm your specific problem but stoned slackers are more likely to be male, dependent on their mother or society for sustenance.