Philip Greenspun asks if "Gender equity should be measured by consumption, not income?"
Philip Greenspun on his blog asks if Gender equity should be measured by consumption, not income? As usual Greenspun is thought provoking. His basic premise
is that statistics
on how much money you earn is not directly related to how much money you have available
to spend. Receiving alimony, child support, gifts or having off-books income all tend to make it seem that you are less wealthy than you really are compared to just looking
at income. This is true whether
you are a man or woman but the reality today is that women are more likely
to have greater money to spend
relative to their income than men, although
it does work both ways.
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