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Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It Hardcover – January, 2005

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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 exposÂ Warren Farrell's next bestseller.

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Why do men earn more than women? Because they deserve to, argues this contrarian challenge to feminist conventional wisdom. Men work longer hours at more dangerous and disagreeable jobs. They more readily accept night shifts, hardship postings to Alaska and entrepreneurial risks. Men get in-demand degrees in engineering, while women get degrees in French literature. Female librarians earn less than garbagemen, not because of discrimination, but because so many applicants compete for the safe, clean, comfortable, convenient, fulfilling jobs women prefer. Indeed, the author insists, statistics show that women and men with equal experience and qualifications, doing the same job, for the same hours, under the same conditions-get paid the same. Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power, usefully points women towards high-paying, male-dominated fields that are becoming female friendly and suggests that ambitious women marry stay-at-home husbands. But he considers men the real victims, taken advantage of because of their innate chivalry and social expectations that they trade earning power for love and sex and be "willing to die to support the wives and children." He decries anti-male discrimination in occupations like teaching, nursing and cocktail-waitressing, and pillories comparable worth initiatives as "spoiled-brat economics." A whole chapter is devoted to "genetic celebrities"-i.e., beautiful women (exemplified in photos of same) whom men shower with free dinners, gifts and home repairs and who "marry up" into cushy lifestyles paid for by workaholic husbands. 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.
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"This book is so good that I'll guarantee it personally. If you are unhappy with it for any reason--just return it to me with your sales receipt and I will send you a prompt refund in full." --Martin Edelston, President, Boardroom, Inc., and Bottom Line publications

"An absolute godsend. Carefully researched, thoughtfully written, and eminently practical. It's not just for women. It's for men and women who, in a global economy, want to know how to earn more. I plan to quote it endlessly." --Richard N. Bolles, author, What Color Is Your Parachute? --Richard Bolles

"Why Men Earn More" will provide much food for thought, no matter where you stand in the pay-gap debate. -- CNN.money, Jeanne Sahadi

"You'll not put this book down.... You'll be treated to an engaging discussion about effective steps to earn more money." -- Mildred Culp, Workwise columnist

"designed to give information in order to make empowering choices that will lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life." -- Erika Welz Prafder, New York Post, March 28, 2005

This book--complete with far more textured, subtle arguments than a column can ever convey--will make you think twice." -- Jeanne Sahadi, senior writer, CNNMoney.com

Why Men Earn More" goes on my reference shelf as a book I will quote and re-read despite disagreements." -- Wendy McElroy, ifeminists.com, February 24, 2005

[the book]does treat an important subject comprehensively,fairly&accurately,drawing on international trends even as it focuses on the United States. --Bloomberg News --Bloomberg News

"Why Men Earn More" will provide much food for thought, no matter where you stand in the pay-gap debate. -- CNN.money, Jeanne Sahadi

"You'll not put this book down.... You'll be treated to an engaging discussion about effective steps to earn more money." -- Mildred Culp, Workwise columnist

"designed to give information in order to make empowering choices that will lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life." -- Erika Welz Prafder, New York Post, March 28, 2005

This book--complete with far more textured, subtle arguments than a column can ever convey--will make you think twice." -- Jeanne Sahadi, senior writer, CNNMoney.com

Why Men Earn More" goes on my reference shelf as a book I will quote and re-read despite disagreements." -- Wendy McElroy, ifeminists.com, February 24, 2005

[the book]does treat an important subject comprehensively,fairly&accurately,drawing on international trends even as it focuses on the United States. --Bloomberg News --Bloomberg News

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition (January 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0814472109
ISBN-13: 978-0814472101
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This is an extremely important book, brimming with facts, statistics, and clear-eyed analyses. With care, patience, and reason Farrell (a former executive at the National Organization for Women) demolishes the claim that women earn $0.79 for each $1.00 earned by a man... at least when you compare apples to apples. Yes, women doctors earn less than men doctors... but much of that difference is due to choice in speciality (neurosurgery versus pediatrics). 92% of deaths in the workplace are men; nearly all deaths in the military are men; and so on. He also lists the dozens of careers where (apples-to-apples) women earn MORE than men. The encouraging lessons from this book will inspire women to embrace careers that will earn more (should they so choose).

I immediately bought a copy of this book for my daughter and will urge her to consider its lessons carefully as she plans her career.

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Buy this for your daughter (or any working woman you love).

July 6, 2018

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This book is a hybrid of storytelling and pure tabulated data (presented in easy-to-read charts within the text).

My sister-in-law saw me reading this book, and she scoffed at the concept of men "earning more for the same work." In reading the book, and double-checking its citations, it becomes strikingly clear that single/childless women actually earn MORE for "the same work."

Dr. Farrell is smart to write in his introduction that "some women can use this book in order to successfully make themselves more marketable in the workplace. Hopeful S-in-Law will put down her pride, pick up this book, and learn a thing or two about the Yang.

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Dose of Reality

July 1, 2017

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Incredible book, everyone needs to read this to get a dose of reality on the subject. There is too much disinformation going around.

P.S: Disregard any of the bad reviews from people that have NOT even read the book. Furthermore, you should read the critical reviews before your purchase thoroughly as many of them come from a place of bias.

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Numinous Dreamer

The Truth Will Set You Free, If You Let It

October 15, 2014

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If you still think there's a pay gap, read this book. If you wonder why there's a pay gap, read this book. If you are annoyed that there's a supposed pay gap, read this book.

Warren Farrell is a man with complete feminist street cred, as he started out being one - up to the point of being on the Board of Directors of NOW. But he's an intelligent thoughtful man who can't seem to stop asking questions and getting the data right. This is a very well researched book - now a bit out of date, I suppose, but still the main thesis of the book si simple.

If there's a pay gap, it's due to many factors - choice of major and choice of career - choice of part-time over full time work - choice of risk over less risk. The main word is - choice.

You only have to think about the real world to see this. Women generally choose to have careers that allow them to balance family and career life; they take on less risk and fewer hours. They are still not majoring in the STEM fields to the same extent as men (and believe me, women are as smart as men . . . ). The more recent findings in a Scandinavian country bear this out - when there is little sexism in major and career choices, women still choose softer social sciences over the harder sciences. They still want to work fewer hours and to have families.

Generally, this is all to the good. But Farrell does something more than just state the research findings. He actually tells women how best to leverage the findings to their benefit. For that, it's worth the price of the book and then some.

If you have a young woman in college that you know - send her this book so she can consider her options and make better choices, so she can leverage the information for herself. Of course she may throw it against the wall a few times, especially if she's a women's studies major. Or working in the current administration in Washington.

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August 12, 2013

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The gender pay gap never made any sense. As we know, business people are motivated entirely by greed, so if they could pay women 77 cents on the dollar, they'd fire the men faster than you can say "Gloria Steinem." The few greed-impaired bosses still hiring men, whether due to a sense of charity or a desire to keep women back in the kitchen, would swiftly find themselves bankrupt, run out of business by competitors offering 23% lower prices. And if that wasn't discouragement enough, for the past 50 years in the US, wage discrimination on the basis of gender has been punishable in federal court.

How can it be that in 2013 the average woman still makes only three quarters as much as the average man?

Warren Farrell's book clears up the paradox. He did extensive research to follow the money--that is, to identify what characteristics of a job you get paid more for, independent of who you are. He identified 25 factors, all quite intuitive. You get paid more for working longer hours, for being willing to travel or relocate, for exposure to the elements, for taking physical or emotional risks, for doing work that follows you home, and for a set of other reasons.

These factors are all tradeoffs, of course. Higher pay comes with higher demands or higher risks. When Dr. Farrell corrected for these factors--that is, when he compared men and women in the same subfield, with the same experience, the same time in their positions, the same risks and hazards, and so on, men and women were paid the same.

Why, then, is there still such a discrepancy in the averages? This is where it gets interesting, and where Dr. Farrell's social science background shines. Prior to marriage, women actually earn more than men. Men and women's earnings diverge upon marriage, because of a mutual understanding (and often mutual desire) that he will be the primary wage earner and she the primary care giver. Men are therefore under significant pressure to earn more and therefore to make more sacrifices to their careers, including working longer hours at more dangerous jobs. People lamenting that women earning only 77% what men do rarely note that 97% of work-related deaths are suffered by men, but those are two sides of the same coin. Higher pay on the surface looks like a male privilege, but it's a Faustian bargain and doesn't necessarily mean men have more power over their lives than women.

The book presents a wealth of hard data that amounts to both good news and bad news for feminists. The good news is that rumors of discrimination are a myth: women are on equal professional footing with men, with the same career opportunities and the same potential rewards. The bad news is it's hard work: achieving the same career goals as men requires making the same career sacrifices. It does not necessarily reflect badly on women that they tend not to be so single-minded about career success but strive for more balanced lives.

Feminists have a curious reaction to even the good news, though. Dr. Farrell spoke on the pay gap at the University of Toronto last year, and local feminists were not exactly delighted to learn they've achieved their stated goal of equal pay for equal work. In fact they rioted to keep him from presenting his research at all.

They may not want to hear it, but the facts are here and well documented. If you're a woman thinking about your own career options, or anyone concerned about what the pay gap really represents, this book is a valuable read.

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Very Enlightening.

March 7, 2018

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This was a very interesting book. I knew there was another side to the hype and tired old narrative on this subject.

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