David McWilliams: Irish woman still take home less pay than men and this is despite the fact that Irish women are better educated than Irish men
Irish woman still take home less pay than men and this is despite the fact that Irish women are better educated than Irish menMany years ago, when working in a large London bank, a few days around Christmas before we broke up for the holidays some alpha male fathers brought their children into work. The ritual struck me as odd.
If Icelanders, in a country with the smallest gender pay gap in the world, didn’t appreciate just how much of their economy and society is run by women – who still are paid less than men – by Wednesday nobody could say they didn’t know. The main factor that explains the persistence of inequality is parenting. Many working mothers might well guffaw at this: You get a Nobel Prize for figuring out that? Any mother juggling school runs, homework, clean football gear, the dinner and that five o clock conference call on the company’s latest sales projections, could’ve told you that!
On a historical basis Goldin has also noted the idea of the U-shaped pattern of women in the workforce. We can see this pattern in Ireland. Some 100 years ago or so when work moved from the household, family farm and small business to the factories, women’s participation fell and women’s incomes relative to men’s collapsed. Then, from the 1950s, as work became available in the service sector, women started going back to work.
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