In an item for DailyMarkets.com, economist Mark Perry argues for something he calls "Equal Pay Day for Men," which he noted would have been celebrated last Wednesday, March 16, in Memphis.
Perry's idea is a play on the long-running "Equal Pay Day" observance, the calendar date until which the average U.S. woman has to work to be paid what the average man made just in the previous year (It'll be April 12 this year).
Time magazine reported last year on new research showing that among some groups, the pay gap is narrowing significantly and even reversing. Writing for the American Enterprise Institute's The Enterprise Blog, he explains how the so-called "reverse gender gap" affects young, single males in America's largest metro areas, including Memphis:
Perry's idea is a play on the long-running "Equal Pay Day" observance, the calendar date until which the average U.S. woman has to work to be paid what the average man made just in the previous year (It'll be April 12 this year).
Time magazine reported last year on new research showing that among some groups, the pay gap is narrowing significantly and even reversing. Writing for the American Enterprise Institute's The Enterprise Blog, he explains how the so-called "reverse gender gap" affects young, single males in America's largest metro areas, including Memphis:
In America's largest cities, single, childless women under the age of 30 now earn 8 percent more on average than their male counterparts ... .
... For example, today (March 16) is the day in 2011 that the average young, single male worker in Memphis will have to work to earn the same income as the average female in his peer group earned last year in 2010. In Atlanta, "Equal Pay for Young, Single Men" won't fall until next Monday on March 21, and the average Equal Pay Day for all of the cities in the study was on February 1."
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