Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sexist Men Earn More Money


Let's see now, a new study finds that sexist men make thousands of dollars a year more than non sexist men. Obviously both kinds of men make more money than women.

So any serious equal pay legislation would have to include a national PR campaign with the mission of shaming sexists and making sexism a societal taboo every bit as abhorrent as racism.

The only way that would ever happen is if a whole lot of women got really really pissed.

Maybe there's a silver lining to this election.

Jezebel - Sexism Pays:

The study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that men who said they believe in more traditional gender roles earned $11,930 more per year than men with more modern views. Women who held more traditional views made an average of $1,500 less than women with more equal views. Researchers came to this conclusion after analyzing data collected by a Labor Department survey that has tracked the changing attitudes of 12,000 people since 1979.