There's a gender wage gap for Uber drivers, but it's not caused by sexism
Men and women are different, behave differently, and want different things. The result is ... differences. Those differences result in wage disparities and gaps. This is normal. These differences cannot be "fixed" without using coercion, unfairness, or force. Either that or algorithms are sexist. "Get ready to freak out, liberals: There’s a wage gap among Uber drivers and it’s mostly caused by gender differences. A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research called “The Gender Earnings Gap in the Gig Economy: Evidence From Over a Million Rideshare Drivers” shows that in the case of working for Uber, men make more than women because of their inherently different masculine traits that give them a slight advantage." *** The abstract of the study states, “We completely explain this gap and show that it can be entirely attributed to three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where to work (driven largely by where drivers live and, to a lesser extent, safety), and preferences for driving speed.” This is a somewhat unusual and thus fascinating look at the innate differences between men and women because of the apples-to-apples comparison. Typically, wage gap die hards compare engineers to preschool teachers and the comparison is too faulty to even bother with analyzing. If you were to compare a male Uber driver and a female Uber driver with what you experientially know about men and women you might observe, which gender (generally) drives faster, takes more risks, and would drive at night? Men are naturally wired for and drawn to jobs that are riskier and thus pay more or are simply more lucrative because of what they produce (think engineering versus teaching preschool). They also tend to work longer hours, take fewer breaks (to bear and raise babies) and thus simply clock in more time at the end of the day." Not only will the gig economy not shrink the gender pay differences, but it is also likely to enlarge them because it allows each gender to behave as they wish without the pressure of the overlord boss. Men will be even more masculine and women even more feminine when they are freed by the gig economy. This will not change the opinion of the feminists on the subject. They need issues to shriek about, or their movement will die, so, they will shriek. It is best to ignore them.
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