No one said anything about the same work. If you’ve understood it that way then I think it is fair to say that you haven’t actually understood the concept, isn’t it?

The question is usually about why female dominated industries, despite being absolutely critical to society, tend to have less monetary value attached to them. Examples of such skilled work are frontline medicine and education; critical yet undervalued compared to say, plumbers and bricklayers, which are male dominated skilled professions that attract very good wages

The presentation is highly misleading. For Ethiopia, it's a factor of more than 2, but it looks like no difference at all.

To fix this, we need to make it normal for men to take time off work for a couple of years to look after their kids.

It shouldnt be called a pay gap because that makes it sound like women are paid less for the same work.

Seems to have a build in bias. The lower the pay, the lesser the gap. What if the pay is adjusted to some sort of average-standard deviation type representation?

From the data there is a correlation between country's wealth and gender pay gap.

Correct. Having children and caring for them is another part of why there is a pay gap.

If the chart were redrawn for women with children vs women without children the pay gap would look the same

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Yeah, there seem to be a few wider than the US

ITT: Guys claiming the gender pay gap doesn’t exist and then describing exactly what the gender pay gap is and how it exists in the exact form they’re denying

Why would it be a shot at the USA if similar PPP income countries in Western Europe show the same or wider pay gap?

You just don’t understand the concept, it seems

“Underpaid” is not what anyone is talking about. They’re discussing the social phenomenon that sees jobs dominated by women earning less than men occurring right across the planet, and the various social implications of it.

It’s weird that you guys feel victimised by this discussion

Congratulations. You just described exactly what everyone means when they say “gender pay gap”.

What you just said, that’s what the gender pay gap is. So…. Not really a myth, eh?

It's not a pay gap. It's an earnings gap. If women were actually being underpaid then all men would be out of jobs because it would be cheaper to employ women.

The "pay" gap has never passed the sniff test

I'd say this data was generated randomly, but it would probably be more plausible in that case.

I can’t make sense of the order of countries

Gender pay gap is a myth in the USA. A woman with the same credentials as a man typically gets paid more to do the same job. They claim there's a pay gap because construction workers and hard laborers have higher pay on average and it's dominated by men because most women don't want to /can't do the work.

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Americans just love weird measurements

Leaving geographies with sparse data (lower representation across sectors). Made from International labour organization data using Datawrapper.

Wait! Nigeria is wasting food?

Wherein we apply a national lens to a regional game.

Ah ok, I thought it was real football. They should put the right name

This is American football, and the college level of the sport is the second most popular “league” in America of any sport behind the NFL

Nobody is saying notre dame is the most successful program of the past 30 years.