There is a Wage Gap Between Men and Women in the Workforce

One thing that my opponent doesn't tell you is how the wage gap is supposedly calculated. This is done by taking the average income of all men and dividing it by the average medium income of women full time workers [1]. It is also no secrete that women outpopulate the US then men by a small percentage point of nearly 51 to 49% [2]. If this is the case, then why does Pro claim the wage gap supposedly exists? Let's look into some of the reasons as to why she might think this. The demagraphics are a huge impact on this debate. There are many issues where the female is stuck with the child while the male can leave the relationship. This is one of the key issues that impact the debate as we can see that the status of the individual and the amount of dependents they have can make a serious impact on the issue. THe amount of hinderance that is placed on the female is shown that they are forced to workless and they are forced to shell out more and more money to harm their own financial abilities which already hinders their ability to work as this harms the ability of the mother to continue to work. My opponent had advocated for a massive gap that men made more than women en mass, thus my opponent has limitted herself to arguing it one way, thus a pay gap could be shown, but it would have to be men making more than women. If I show it can exist yet the other way around, I win the debate. I have previously shown that women are massively hindered by their biological abilities to bare children while men don't, when we compare nationwide statistics of single workers of both sexes, we can see that women outpace men in all of the US's major cities including the national average [4]. Under this case, we can see this is the only even playing field and this does take into factor my opponent's argument on regards to majors and fields. This shows that this wage gap is really just a myth as women, when compared to men on an equal level in terms of martial and child standard, women outpace men by great amounts. Another area is that of simple supply and demand. We can see that generic economics that when there is a low supply, wages are high, but when more and more people enter the field, we can see that these wages will lower. This has been shown to hold true when it holds to many of these fields. In many of these fields, we can see that when women enter these fields that Pro has layed out here for us, that the average wage has dropped nearly 57% in some areas [5]. Now, note that this happens in areas completely dominated by women, which I shall also get into later. Simple economics show that this really isn't this discrimination and this mythical nonsense, it's simple economics in effect. Another issue here is if this was the true stat of women being paid less than men, then you would see a barrage of women being highered into the workforce to cut the marginal cost in the workplace created by men, this by itself shows that such an aspect does not quite come up to par as this really is not the true status quo. Top jobs were women make more than the male in the field.1. Social worker - $1.08 2. Merchandiser - $1.08 3. Research assistant - $1.07 4. Purchasing specialist - $1.06 5. Physician advisor - $1.02 6. Communications associate - $1.02 7. Social media - $1.02 8. Health educator - $1.01 9. Procurement - $1.01 10. Business coordinators and therapists - $1.01 CNN had done research a few years ago and have found several fields were women make more money than the average male in the field [6]. I have brought up earlier to show that there are many factors that play into this such as purportions and basic human anatomy. There are many factors like that of there being mre women or men in a field than another which, by itself, shows there being an inbalance due to the unequality in the fields. I have previously shown in this debate that women, when placed on an even playing field and demographic as women, are paid more than the men. My opponent takes the top salaries of both fields and compares them. This argument is completely bogus as she takes these two jobs, which the skill levels are extremely different as well as the pay. Women and men are in both fields, just not as numerous as the other. My opponent is simply picking and choosing select points and this must be discarded. We can see that just going by the top most dominate fields, we are completely blurring data. We could easily compare the President's salary, since he's a man, to the social worker, this argument would be completely bogus just to compare the top wages of the most dominated fields. My opponent is stereotyping women as weak and fragile for not wanting to go into these other fields, but they do as we can even see that the most dominated male fields have more females in it then men in the top female dominated fields. If we were to include that statistic, wouldn't it show that since more women work in the higher fields then men in the female dominated fields that the women would make more monetary gains in this process? The answer is a resounding yes, so this argument must be flown into my favor. I would like it to be a note that my opponent's graphs do not actually show as the only one linked is a file source on my opponent's computer. As for the argument in regards to part time vs. full time. I have already shown that the USFG calculates this using full time jobs, meaning that my opponent's arguments in regards to this does not actually factor into Pro's argument, but this actually aids my own arguments. How is this you may ask? We can see that many women do hold jobs, but the wage gap calculations only include full-time employees, this artificially lowers the female statistics here. The actually number is quite higher as my opponent has shown that these females are excluded from the calculation. Meaning that if they did work fulltime, they would be included and this myth of 77% would completely disappear. This argument can be flown into my favor. Sources1. (. http://tinyurl.com...)2. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 3. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 4. (. http://tinyurl.com...)5. (. http://tinyurl.com...) 6. (. http://tinyurl.com...)