Why Do People Still Believe the Myth of the Gender Wage Gap?

It isn't real. Average differences in salary between men in contrast to women are largely due to one over-riding factor: choice.
Men have different interests, due to the fact they're not like women. Men like things, women like people. Men gravitate to objects like cars, trains, planes and things that go BOOM! Women like to talk, gossip, socialise, and hence they'll wind up in careers in nursing, psychology and teaching. Men are far more analytical, and will gravitate to the (highly sought-after, and therefore highly-paid) STEM positions, and end up becoming a data analyst, statistician, or invent something that they can sell to Elon Musk.
Men have greater ambition, work longer hours, are far more willing to sacrifice their leisure time with family in order to make it to the top of the corporate ladder. Women take far more holidays, sick leave, and are FAR more likely to opt to work part-time rather than full-time.
It really is this simple. "Discrimination" has NOTHING to do with it!
I mean, come on, think about this. If it were true that women got, let's say, 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man to do the exact same job, don't you think employers would do all they could to get away with hiring only women?

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SteelHands · 61-69, M

Politics. Emotional control over women is part of the Leftist platform.

Grievance groupings divide society. This enables bad actors to attempt more government control. A pretense of solving fake issues lets them make more laws and create new violations of those laws.

Don't worry though. They'll be going after women in due time.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@SteelHands You can't use party-politics to explain it. Sexual stereotypes, discrimination and wrongs like "coercive and controlling behaviour" (to use the legal phrase) are social problems and common across society irrespective of however anyone votes.

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@ArishMell Political friends and foes ought to admit they don't even know what's true anymore it's clear to me they don't.

Even the media lives in at this point a kind of perverse childish make believe.

If they did they'd be solving problems by leaving the easy shedt alone instead of making things sheddtyer for everyone else while making themselves richer.

Some of us gotta work. We got very little time to give a ratasz you'r kid wants his dk cut off or bidens kid is getting his dk sukt by a coupl 13 yr old asian sex slaves.

We would appreciate if our kids weren't being taught by a misandic mentally ill freak gender bender kiddie chaser.

Too bad Vi ek dropped out. I hear he was gonna dump the government church called schools.

Drat. Lol

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@SteelHands Sorry, a lot of that is lost on me, but I do worry that too many politicians of all parties know too little about the things they debate.

"All" parties? Around six of them, I think!

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@ArishMell Yes it's a bit confusing. I can't even think of one atheistic pervert that doesn't vote and support the party of Democrats while the billion dollar ones that doesn't vote that way is of the party Republican and are usually just as obviously raunchy.

I guess being a rich guy on years of corporate welfare and being someone from generations of being on the poor people welfare dole aren't all that different.

Neither one pays taxes and both are hung up on being no better than someone that sniffs bike seats as a hobby.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@SteelHands Umm, I am neither American nor US-resident so I'll leave your partisanship and financial analysis to you; and I am not sure what an "atheistic pervert" is, in US political terminology!

However the OP was about equality of pay, and I would agree there are strong party-political as well as social elements in that matter. It's the latter that makes the politics all the harder in a democracy, because politicians reflect their own times' social attitudes as well their own parties' principles; and whatever laws are made do not change ingrained social attitudes overnight.

I suppose the UK equivalent was that in the past the Labour Party (originally, that of the trades-unions) was more fervent on equality than were the Conservatives (traditionally associated with business owners and investors); but these days such differences between the Parties are far less marked.

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@ArishMell Politicians are different where you are. Got it.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@SteelHands Well, I don't know about that. Most of them are pretty good, but there's always a few who mess things up or do wrong. The system is different of course.

SteelHands · 61-69, M

Except for you're senselessly totally pure non governmentally honest transparent daily news organizations, of course, which are as free and reliable as right here in gamor.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@SteelHands I don't know at whom that's directed, but I do trust our news organisations on the whole. They make clear what are reports and what are opinions. The newspapers have their own biases to their own extents, but they are well-known and easy to allow for.

SteelHands · 61-69, M

@ArishMell Lucky you. Lol

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@SteelHands Thankyou!

It's not that difficult to judge if a news source is politically biased: compare its coverage of the same matters with that of other reporters. Examine if it gives reasonably fair coverage of both sides of divisive ones. Examine its critics.

If for example, a particular organisation is attacked as "right-wing" by left-leaning types, while also attacked as "left-wing" by right-leaning types, it must be fairly neutral! Usually the attacks from any one faction are for it daring to let the other faction have its say as well.

While at work, it was not only me lucky generally, but of course, lucky for the women to be treated with respect.