Mike's Minute: Gender pay gap solutions are artificial
Another of these strange made up claims this week masquerading as a report that suggests the solving of a problem, or perceived problem, can only happen if we changed the way we did things.
A group called Mind the Gap likes the idea of forcing companies to publish their wages on a gender basis thus embarrassing them in paying more to women.
The claim is, if we did this, we could increase females' pay by up to $35 a week.
The gap on average is currently 9 percent. The reason it's 9 percent is not because people who employ other people don’t like women. It's because women, on the whole, choose…
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