Gender gap?

Exploiting the Gender Gap
N.Y.TIMES by WARREN FARRELL, September 5

It is obvious that there are some inequities and that they used to be far worse. But Warren Farrell delivers a brief, more current, examination of the wage gap claim. Interesting reading.

Excerpt:
"Nothing disturbs working women more than the statistics often mentioned on Labor Day showing that they are paid only 76 cents to men's dollar for the same work. If that were the whole story, it should disturb all of us; like many men, I have two daughters and a wife in the work force.
When I was on the board of the National Organization for Women in New York City, I blamed discrimination for that gap. Then I asked myself, 'If an employer has to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman would do for 76 cents, why would anyone hire a man?'
Perhaps, I thought, male bosses undervalue women. But I discovered that in 2000, women without bosses - who own their own businesses - earned only 49 percent of male business owners. Why? When the Rochester Institute of Technology surveyed business owners with M.B.A.'s from one top business school, they found that money was the primary motivator for only 29 percent of the women, versus 76 percent of the men. Women put a premium on autonomy, flexibility (25- to 35-hour weeks and proximity to home), fulfillment and safety.
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives."