Hasnain says:

This was really interesting! I wonder what the causal factor here is, given that they controlled for a lot of things.

"Last year, Marieka Klawitter, professor of public policy at the University of Washington, examined 29 studies across the Western Hemisphere on wages and sexual orientation and found a 9 percent earnings premium for lesbians over heterosexual women. (Gay men, meanwhile, faced an 11 percent penalty, compared to straight men.)

She controlled for parenthood and concluded lesbians simply had more education and work experience than the general female population.

But another study from the University of Nevada, which used national data from the year 2000, adds a stunning asterisk to Klawitter's findings: Lesbians who had previously lived with male partners made 9.5 percent less than those who’d never cohabitated with a husband figure.

Were men actually the drags on women’s earnings?"

Posted on 2023-03-19T03:47:29+0000