Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It | 
 enlarge | Author: Warren Farrell
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ISBN: 0814472109
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Publication Date: January 2005
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Product Description
If men really are paid more than women for the same amount of work, why would anyone hire a man? Warren Farrell asked himself that question, wondering whether the assumption of unequal pay is really true. Following years of research, he now presents his surprising and controversial answer, arguing that women almost always have exactly the same opportunities as men, but make choices that keep them from earning more. Why Men Earn More fearlessly debunks traditional assumptions, and presents 25 of these key workplace choices, including the decision to take more hazardous jobs, enter technical fields, work longer hours, and many more. Investigating the implications and trade-offs people make, Why Men Earn More forces readers to rethink their strategies, and shows how they can take control of their wage-earning potential.
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"Controversial and exhaustively researched, gender expert Warren Farrell’s latest book Why Men Earn More takes as its stunning argument the idea that bias-based unequal pay for women is largely a myth, and that women are most often paid less than men not because they are discriminated against, but because they have made lifestyle choices that affect their ability to earn. Why Men Earn More argues that while discrimination sometimes plays a part, both men and women unconsciously make trade-offs that affect how much they earn. Farrell clearly defines the 25 different workplace choices that affect women’s and men’s incomes -- including putting in more hours at work, taking riskier jobs or more hazardous assignments, being willing to change location, and training for technical jobs that involve less people contact -- and provides readers with specific, research-supported ways for women to earn higher pay. Why Men Earn More, with its brashness in the face of political correctness, is sure to ignite a storm of media controversy that will help to make this thoroughly pragmatic expose Warren Farrell’s next bestseller."
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 Work like a man...and earn like a man. April 2, 2008
Michael (Hamburg, Germany)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the message from Warren Farrell's intelligent and objective work on the truth behind salary discrepancies. The sinister male conspiracy insinuated by feminism that keeps women's wages low is revealed to be a fantasy, as what we are looking at is simply a case of economic cause and effect. Don't study those fun and fulfilling courses like History of Art or French Lit. Everyone would love to do a 'hobby degree', especially if you have a partner to pay the bills, but you'll never get one of those jobs which require a real degree, like in Engineering, Science, Architecture or Medicine, which men don't do more often because they enjoy it, but because they know they're not going to find a woman to fund their needs if they do a hobby degree. Work as much overtime as a man. Commute as far as he does. Do a job as dirty, stressful, or dangerous. Do a job with uncomfortable working conditions, preferably working 12 hour shifts outside in winter. Be prepared to face mutilation and permanent disfigurement on a daily basis. Work 84 hour weeks. Then you'll be earning 98% of a man's salary. Now let's all try to close off those remaining 2% without getting distracted by this childish misrepresentation from feminist groups as to the true extent of this problem (76% - what a joke!).
The free market always causes jobs to gravitate towards those who can be paid less. This is why in most Western countries without a minumum wage, foreign men can be found on the construction sites, with foreign women often as cleaners. Here in Germany it was traditionally Poles and other East Europeans, in the States probably Mexicans. German and American men and women had priced themselves out of the market, and thus lost out to those willing to work for lower pay. If any sensible person was starting a company in a fantasy world where female workers, equally good as the male ones, could be got for a fraction of the salary, men would struggle to find work. Companies would ONLY hire women, unless there was no alternative but to pay the higher salaries demanded by men in such a fantasy world. That is the world where feminists live. They believe that this is the one area of economic activity which breaks all known rules of the free market and economic activity. Please, any feminist who reads this and rates me low, answer me that question, or I have zero respect for your intelligence, or the ideology you promote. By lying like this, you are making people sceptical of other genuine discrimination against women.
Sometime in April we can expect those dim-witted Mastodon's of dinosaur feminism to remind us all of how many extra days women have to work to get a man's wage. What a load of bilge! How anyone in their right mind can think they deserve something for nothing beats me, almost as much as the last line of the review Amazon so kindly chose for this book - they're not famous for choosing complimentary reviews of books that conflict in any way with the matriarchy, and this is another typical case:
'Ostensibly a road-map to workplace equality, Farrell's portrait of pampered, ungrateful women and stoic, self-sacrificing men may strike some readers as an unhelpful caricature.'
...but only those readers accustomed to decades of books and proaganda on brave self-sacrificing women and ungrateful deadbeat dads. For the rest of us, it's wonderful to see the other side represented, although this book is a drop in the ocean. I trust 'Publisher's Weekly', who produced the above review, have criticized in a similar way all the feminist books which present men as described above. If they haven't, shame on them for their hypocrisy and prejudiced reviewing, and let us pray that some day such biased journals will go the way of the dinosaurs too.
To sum up, this book is a must-get, if only to be able to argue effectively against those who still believe in feminism's wage fantasies.
Be careful though - the truth hurts, and more than one feminist has blown up in my face on having her delusions revealed...
The facts. October 25, 2007
Montgomery Nigma (St Louis, MO)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
According to New York Times,
women who have no children
make 98% of a man's salary,
but women all together (including
the childless women) make
about 76% of what men earn.
This fact was cited in The Expanded Family Life Cycle,
a book with a clearly feminist agenda, and rated here on Amazon accordingly.
 Not addressing the real wage difference September 8, 2007
AMP (Indiana)
10 out of 28 found this review helpful
Farrell contends that women make less due to the fact that they pick "easier" or more pleasant jobs than men. This may be the case in some instances, but I picked up this book because I thought it was about the wage imbalance, not what an average man makes compared to the avg woman. The wage imbalance is for the SAME jobs, not different ones.
Farrell says things like women make less because they choose to be day care providers instead of accountants. Again, I'm not saying this is not the case, but that does NOT address why women accountants make LESS than male accountants (with the same education, years of experience, etc). THAT is the real wage imbalance and Farrell just tells one common sense (like that a liberal arts degree gets you less money than a technology degree). I hope this "researcher" didn't get any money for his "research" on this. It's COMMON SENSE, not research!
Don't waste your money on this book!!!
Women and children first August 5, 2006
Reader (Chicago, IL USA)
6 out of 20 found this review helpful
If I did not see in author's biography that he is the father of two girls, I would have difficult time accepting some of his statements and explanations as to why is it that men make more money than women do. Advice to women that they should be courageous and enter the male dominated fields is something I have tried many years ago myself. Being willing to travel, relocate, enter the professions traditionally held by men and dedicate life to a career is the path I have followed. While I have had good professional success so far, I still do not find it to ring true that will necesarily generate more money in salary than what people working for me (all men incidentally) do. As a matter of fact, my employees make the same, or more money in salaries and benefits than I do.
What I have found interesting is the notion of the social order that author is trying to break. He is suggesting that women need to be accepting of having "stay at home husband" or what author is also referring to as "wife". Traditionally all women, even the successful ones according to today's standards have always been looking into ways to marry well (i.e. marry up). That made their own professional careers limited, since they always had to consider their own husbands careers too before making their own professional mark. Successful men on the other hand always had stay at home wives that followed them around country or world every time a new career opportunity for their man came along. Women need to free themselves up from the notion that they must have successful professional husbands in order to be successful themselves. I still find it difficult to buy as an idea, since I have a "wife" myself, and yet - money is not as good as it should be. There must be some other answers out there, only this book is not providing me with ones I was hoping for....
An excellent coverage of the subject, incorrect marketing August 3, 2006
G. Klimanis (San Jose, CA USA)
18 out of 25 found this review helpful
The controversy surrounding this book is not only in its very existence in the gender-political climate of today but also the author's weak choice of his target market. The material is unsettling for the female reader searching for yet another sympathetic ear in the mire of self-help books, an industry with synthetic reality for sale. It's totally ok for a handful male-oriented books to exist amongst the shelves of female self-help "porn." Do universities even offer male-oriented social study ? Oh, wait, that's engineering.
The author systematically discusses the reasons behind the perceived in equality in the inappropriately concocted but very real pay gap. When multiplied by years worked, the "total earnings" difference is a canyon.
The author makes a great point that the workplace has largely changed to accomodate females. Diversity training is about altering male behavior rather than training women to enter the culture of the existing workplace. There is no equivalent training of women to accept men in female-dominated industries, such as teaching, retail clothing sales, medical practice/nursing, childcare, etc. On the contrary, men are increasingly demonized as potential rapists and child molesters.
Men have always been pressured to earn more because they NEED to. Males compete with one another for desirable characteristics that are still in vogue. Just search the on-line dating listings to see that women prefer men that are physically larger (taller), are older (can demonstrate a track record of holding a job and accumulating assets) and , well, make more money. When these selective pressures are reduced, the pay gap may narrow. The gap won't disappear until the advantage of leveraged feminity disappears with it.
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