IT PAYS TO BE A LESBIAN
Jan. 3rd, 2011 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: While women still statistically make less money than men for the same job, apparently lesbians make more money than straight women.
Not much more, mind – about 6%, even after adjusting for demographics (i.e. lesbian women are better-educated on average, are more likely to be white, live predominantly in cities, have fewer children, and are significantly more likely to be a professional).
Still, I had no idea.
Marina Adshade at Big Think offers a possible explanation: women who expect to eventually get married have less incentive to invest in the human capital that will give her an advantage in the labor market.
Don’t ask me if that’s true. It’s just a hypothesis at this stage. If it IS true, it would be interesting to see how gay marriage (where it’s legal, anyway) might impact those figures.
Anyway, I’ve learned something today.
Smash the glass ceiling,
This is dF
Not much more, mind – about 6%, even after adjusting for demographics (i.e. lesbian women are better-educated on average, are more likely to be white, live predominantly in cities, have fewer children, and are significantly more likely to be a professional).
Still, I had no idea.
Marina Adshade at Big Think offers a possible explanation: women who expect to eventually get married have less incentive to invest in the human capital that will give her an advantage in the labor market.
Don’t ask me if that’s true. It’s just a hypothesis at this stage. If it IS true, it would be interesting to see how gay marriage (where it’s legal, anyway) might impact those figures.
Anyway, I’ve learned something today.
Smash the glass ceiling,
This is dF
