Women Are STILL Earning 20% Less Than Men

ILO- The Global Wage Report 2018 offers a more accurate way of calculating the gender pay gap. We call this the “factor weighted gender pay gap”.

Using new data covering some 70 countries and about 80 per cent of wage employees worldwide, the report finds that globally women continue to be paid approximately 20 per cent less than men. 

“The gender pay gap represents one of today’s greatest manifestations of social injustice, and all countries should try to better understand what lies behind them and accelerate progress towards gender equality,” said Guy Ryder. 

I’m no economist, so I don’t understand all these graphs and terms. Wage growth? Factor weighted gender pay gap? Pay no attention to these fancy terms. The only thing that really matters here is that women are still earning 20% less than men.

Boom! Take that, ladies!!! This is like the most one-sided fight in history. How many years has it been now… 200,000? Hahahaha might be time for a new playbook, gals. The Patriots won five titles in 15 years and everyone calls them the most successful football dynasty ever. Compare Brady’s rings to the wage title run that men are currently on? Makes the Pats look like a joke.

Good news: I did the math. Let’s say that in the years of the first humans, women made nothing for their work. That means the wage gap was 100% back then (ouch!) Over the next 200,000 years, they closed it to 20%. If they continue at this rate, they will make the same amount as men in… 50,000 years. Wooooo ladies! Mark your calendars for November 27 of the year 52,018. On that day, barring any unforeseen obstacles, you and I will make the same amount of money for the same job. Be patient! Equality awaits.

In order to gather more data points, I went up to all the women in our office individually and asked them how much money they made. They were both rude and unhelpful in my study and refused to offer any insight. That was to be expected. A recent study showed that women are 20% less likely to tell you how much money they make than men.*

Anyway, here’s to 50,000 more years of dominance boys. Cheers!

*Ellis, Francis. “Study.” Barstool Sports. November 29, 2018.

PS- I searched “wage gap” on twitter for more info and came across this tweet. Might be the most outrageous, sexist sports compilation I’ve ever seen. Still funny though.