http://time.com/76023/pay-gap-gender-kids-allowances/

This article elaborates on research done in regards to pay gaps… in children’s chores. In something strictly controlled by the guardian, we see that gender bias is deeply ingrained as to where it’s subconsciously taught to children that boys will earn more than girls. It’s wild. Girls are asked to do two more hours weekly of chores than boys, and this seems to be because of the biased tradition of women being domestically adept. And, according to the university of Michigan, boys are 15% more likely to be paid for doing chores. It seems like parents feel it’s an additional expectation for boys, yet not for girls. It’s maybe even seen as being part of a girl’s existence.

“The most damning survey comes from Westpac, which found that boys earned an average of $48 for spending 2.1 hours on chores per week, while girls only got $45 for working for 2.7 hours on household jobs.”

WHAT! $48, or even $45 a week for roughly two hours of chores is crazy. Adopt me. Regardless, Westpac’s data demonstrates the pay gap AND the time gap in the reward and expectation per boy and girl. This just reinforces the expectation that we’re trying to eradicate out of society.

The article touches upon the claim that women just naturally choose lower paying jobs (because they’re so nurturing blah blah blah) such as teachers or social workers (which in a whole other argument really deserves a tremendous amount more for all the effort both those professions take). However, they tie in the bls pay statistics averaged from professions all across the US and we see that only SEVEN professions have the same pay for men and women. Only seven out of over 400. And it’s always in the favor of men. It actually comes from the positions within companies.