Fearing invisibility to women, men learn success is the best preventive medicine to avoid the cancer of female rejection. The statistic then helps the women's movement recruit. It does not encourage women to pursue careers they enjoy more if they earn less. Nor men to pursue careers they enjoy more if they earn less. Here are a few of the more startling.
Men are much more likely to hold two workplace jobs.
But statistically he is considered one full time worker. So we are often comparing his two jobs to her one job. This does not mean women work less than men. Full time working women put in more work time at home. But they put in less at work for which they are paid and this is what the statistic compares.