Quote from The Case for Discrimination

From Walter Block's book, the Case for Discrimination:

In the previous census, the female-male income ratio for 30-and-over never-marrieds was 99.2 percent; and in that year, the ratio rose to 109.8 percent for those with a university degree who were never married. That is, the average salary of females was 9.8 percentage points more than that of males.

Wait, what? Women with comparable education and experience earned more than men? If sexual "discrimination" exists, why do the statistics tell the opposite story? What does this tell us about the motives of policymakers and groups working to change what statistically appears to be a lack of "discrimination" through public policy?

The second nail emerges when we consider the exotic implications of the employer discrimination hypothesis of the pay gap. If this analysis were true, one would expect to find a systematic and positive relationship between profit levels and the number of women in the firm or industry.

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