@shock_n_Aweful

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I agree that getting paid even 1 cent less just because of gender is bullshit. That being said, I am not doing it to you so please stop treating me like I am some kind of monster. Thanks
@dustsky

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

You never mentioned negotiating the pay and how men and women do it.
@Lvka007

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

You lost me around the six minutes mark; are you saying that the discrepancy in question is only present when the time spent on maternity leave is factored in as part of the total work-time (minimizing the numerator [money] while maximizing the denominator [time], thus inevitably yielding a lower ratio [salary]), or that it is still there, even when only actual working hours are taken into account ?
@ImVicBlanco

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

This is the most honest approach on the topic i've heard from someone from the left.

I'm sure there's a bias against women as the data you mentioned suggests, and we as a society should put an end to it, but the reason for men to be profiled as better leaders than women is that leadership is a masculine quality, it doesn't mean that women can't be leaders but to most women specially the most feminine ones it doesn't come naturally, many choose not to be leaders because they're unconfortable in that position, and the reason for this is that we like chimps and gorillas are a patriarcal species, patriarcal doesn't mean oppresive it just means the males take the lead and the value of the leader isn't inherently superior to the value of the follower, something we can do is to enable positions within the work place that allow women to apply their femininity and value more that work, pay it better, because it's been proven that the feminine perspective adds value to the company in a study I saw the other day, women are better than men dealing with people for example, women within their field could do more of that.
@thatsterroristsbro7855

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Indirect structural discrimination.
@BongBarbietheBarbiewiththeBong

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I know this is an old video, but I'm bingeing you so…, but I feel the 77% rate is kind of a medium between all races of women. Like your statistic is for white women compared to white men. The largest gap is Hispanic women vs white men, but there is also a gap between men depending on race (Hispanic men still making the least). Regardless, it's pretty messed up.
@redstarthunder12

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

ya know, they talk about all these studies but so seldom do they actually show these people.
@renardleblanc5556

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Shoulda watched this before commenting on the other vid. Imma derp. X3
@rowstersvlogs1526

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I just want to start by thanking you for making this video but some of these comments are so ignorant. So that’s what my rant is about

OH MY FREAKING GOD! THE GENDER PAY GAP IS DEFINITELY REAL not just in the US but ALL OVER THE WORLD! Reading these comments makes me very sad. It’s not because of experience, it’s because the men make the rules and say that woman work less. BUT WOMAN WORK MORE! We birth children, we have families, we usually run the family, AND DO A JOB. It is definitely real. AND MY PARENT’s JOB CAN PROVE THAT TO YOU!
@FishDisrespecter

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

If the wage gap was real then no one would hire women at a disproportionate rate because they could save a ton not hiring men.
@Competitive_Antagonist

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I guess the 78% is a nice buzzword, but sadly ignores a lot of variables. I'm feeling the desire to look for the statistics behind the claims now after hearing a few different views on this issue.
@entertain7us148

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Wait, so Shoe's 'muh wage gap' button wasn't a comprehensive, intellectually honest explanation of the thousands of factors that go into this situation?

well i'll be damned…
@i9incher

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

did the women in those studies try and negotiate for a higher wage? women that negotiate for a higher wage are in the single didgets. where men are over 50%.

did the women know anyone at the company as much as the men? if you know someone you can typically negotiate for more money.

same works with references. you can have the same education, but if one had a reference from someone in the company or from the University and the other doesn't, that's an advantagem

did you also know that while females can get punished for asking for higher wages more than men because they aren't as assertive as men, that female mangers punish men and women MORE for asking for more money.

did you also know that woman on average down play their accomplishments and how much they think they need, when men do the exact opposite?

did you also know that men tend to be more competitive than women? which helps fuel confidence and drive which also helps in presentation and negotiating?

did you know through social conditioning, if you keep hearing that you will make less money over and over again, you will just assume you will and are less likely to try and Change it?

as a side note,
nurses take the same education as engineers?
you can become a nurse in two years at a community college.

engineering requires a minimum of a bachelor's degree and if you ever want to make real money you often times need certifications AND a master's degree.

also, being am engineer is a lot more complicated than being a nurse AND the jobs are in more demand. so of COURSE they are going to pay more.

also, you mentioned studies that found gaps of 10 to 20 percent, and yet you left or studies that found it to be between 2-7 percent.

which I get. people should make the same if everything is the same, but often times that doesn't happen.

even just having a different HIRING manager can change the percents. maybe the first one values an ivy league education and is willing to pay more but the second one doesn't value it as much.

basically yes, there are many factors and I have no doubt that discrimination is one of them.

but I think there are too many variables to expect everyone to make the same.
@carmennorth8482

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

You're my fave youtuber because you are the most unbiased. I <3 you
@bambirose1310

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

this is kinda touching on the jobs women and men take, i personally think that men get paid slightly more because they are more willing to put themselves at risk, ill use an example from the video a man being an engineer has far more risks than a woman being a nurse, like cutting a finger off, crushing a hand dropping something heavy on thrir foot, those kind of risks, where as a woman would prefer to take a safer job more so if she has children to look after ehere as a man with kids would prefer to go out and provide for the family more so and not caring as much about the risk. i know this sounds like im all for gender roles but in my opinion it all boils down to instinct, a woman has an instant conenection with her baby when its born she kinda knows what to do without thinking too much, a man on the other (from what i have seen) is shocked and takes on a more protective role of the child and woman, he wants to take care of them therefore will go out and try and find a better paying job to provide…thas jus me tho XD
@obeastness

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

An employer should have the freedom to pay their employees whichever wage they think is appropriate, if the employer decides what pay is appropriate based on prejudices , bigotry, misogyny or what ever other criteria you don't agree with, that is their own business, it's their company, you would want the same freedoms if it was your company. The alternative is for a government agency that has no vested interest in the business to have authority over the business owner whose livelihood is that business, I really don't understand how people can consider this justice. My suggestion to women who are unhappy with their pay is to negotiate for a better pay.
@dirgenmeister4018

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

the problem with this issue is that no one wants to be honest about it, and because of that nobody can get anything done. Like, if we all accepted the fake 77 cents thing, we wouldn't accomplish anything because we're tackling the issue from the wrong angle, and we'll have no objective standard to measure when we've finally ended workplace diacrimination. This is like some 1984 war is peace stuff, where being in a continuous state of fighting an issue is seen as just as good as fixing the issue, because either way you can preach an ideology
@capedkat

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I don't have an issue with my paycheck. I have an issue with the verbal and sometimes physical abuse. I had to work 5 times harder and be better at my job to be able and be better then all my male colleageus.. I work hard, cry at night. My comfort is that I know I am good at it. Love from a process mechanic
@bloodyleech

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

repeating something over and over again dOesn't make it true
@skeetorkiftwon

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Liar.

We know definitively the reasons for the gender wage gaps:

Risk. Men incur greater risk for employment than women do. This discrepancy is proven by the difference in the work related death and injury rate.

Education. Women have sought lower paying degrees than men traditionally, and that fact has been exacerbated during the last four decades.

Female driven maternity care. Women have, despite all efforts, insisted on abandoning the labor force to raise children. When the expense of this provision is considered (maintaining the woman, child, and social expectation (ie taxes and COL) ) it is entirely apparent the support of the woman and future of the state is passed unto the man.
@TheAlfredo094

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Could it not be because men do harder/more demanding jobs? I mean, most worker deaths are male, doesn't that tell you something?

Also, you can't just compare averages and call it a day. That's not how statistics work.
@henryk4389

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

yo dawg, at 5m15s or so you say that nursing requires the same level of experience, skills and education as engineering. I'm happy to agree with that, but isn't it obvious that the reason an engineer is paid more than a nurse is because what an engineer does for their employer much more profitable? if somebody has only two choices, nursing or engineering, and their goal is to make more money, wouldn't you recommend they choose engineering?
@redjack2629

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

One small caveat you failed to mention is that lower-paying and entry-level jobs often show a preference for female workers. You are, for instance, far and away more likely to find a women working at a clothing store that caters primarily to men than you are to find the opposite… And while fancier suit-and-tie restaurants favor male wait staff, small-town cafes and restaurants hire in favor of women. Hell, those two things alone forced me, personally, to finally resort to a job in construction making 65% of median wage for my position, with no liklihood of a raise. That isn't to say sexism isn't a thing, or that is isn't a thing that negatively effects women in the workplace, of course, just a note. (Also, I agree with TL;DR on the point that starting a family is, and should be considered, a conscious choice, and a decision made between two consenting adults. Not saying that break-ups don't happen, but I think people put far to little forthought into relationships and having children to begin with.)
@jopejoso7474

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Hi, I am a new subscriber. Let me apologize in advance for my language, english isn't my primary language so it is frustrating for me to translate every single word.
With that being said I would like to make a point about a certain part of your video which i think you are wrong. It is about what you call discrimination of women because they can start a family and be absent from work because of that. It is true that it is gender problem that is targeting women, but what is not true is that one that is causing that problem is her boss or her company that she works at. Because, for the firm it is not the same to hire men or women if women can have that option. What i am trying to say that this problem is problem of the government because it is their job to assure that both women and man are equally acceptable for the same job (for the jobs that could be). I hope you will see my point and answer me back.
@cidevant002

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I do like you hair, man…

Suscribe.
@DannyDisease

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Dammit Janitor, I love you.

One thing though, I'm surprised you didn't touch on the fact that for women of color the gap is much larger.
@erarrr4508

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

From what I've seen from the reports of women, there is discrimination against mothers in the work place,. The work place is not very suitable for families, and there's still a stigma that women are the ones responsible for taking care of the children.

The stories I heard from women keep repeating themselves, it usually goes like this:

– They always ask women if they have an arrangement for their kids, they never ask that from men.
– Even though they are legally not allowed to ask a woman if she's pregnant or if she plans on getting pregnant they still do it.
– It's not legal to fire a pregnant woman, but most employers find ways to by pass the law and in reality they can actually fire a pregnant woman.
– Women in child bearing age are pretty much like the plague, both male an female employers want to avoid them.
@stachefonzi

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Holy lack of fact checking batman. I'm only investigating your first source and I've already found glaring problems with what you're claiming. Firstly, your link is just a summary that states GAO found a 20% wage gap and that discrimination COULD be a factor.

For some reason you didn't actually link the original study so I had to track it down and read it. Apparently looking at primary sources to determine how to interpret a study is a novel concept.

Here it is:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0435.pdf

Shall we look at the conclusion stated in the study?

"In conclusion, while we were able to account for much of the difference in
earnings between men and women, we were not able to explain the
remaining earnings difference. It is difficult to evaluate this remaining
portion without a full understanding of what contributes to this difference.
Specifically, an earnings difference that results from individuals’ decisions
about how to manage work and family responsibilities may not necessarily
indicate a problem unless these decisions are not freely made. On the
other hand, an earnings difference may result from discrimination in the
workplace or subtler discrimination about what types of career or job
choices women can make. Nonetheless, it is difficult, and in some cases,
may be impossible, to precisely measure and quantify individual decisions
and possible discrimination. Because these factors are not readily
measurable, interpreting any remaining earnings difference is problematic."

Now let's look at the STATED LIMITATIONS AS DESCRIBED BY THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE STUDY:
While our analysis used what we consider to be the most appropriate
methods and data set available for our purposes, our analysis has both
data and methodological limitations that should be noted. Specifically,
although the PSID has many advantages over alternative data sets, like any
data set, it did not include certain data elements that would have allowed
us to further define reasons for earnings differences. For example, until
recently, the PSID did not contain data on fringe benefits—most
importantly, health insurance and pension coverage. Because data on
fringe benefits were not available for each year that we studied, we did not
include it for any year. If more women than men worked in jobs that
offered a greater percentage of total compensation in the form of fringe
benefits, part of the remaining gender earnings difference could be
explained by differences in the receipt of fringe benefits. Similarly, the
PSID does not contain data on job characteristics such as flexibility that
men and women may value differently.
In addition, the PSID does not contain data on education quality or field of
study, such as college major. It also does not contain data on cognitive
ability or measures of social skills, all of which may affect earnings. For example, studies of earnings differences that used the National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth have used a measure of ability in addition to
work experience, education, and demographic variables.13 This data set,
however, follows a specific cohort of individuals over time and is
therefore not representative of the population as a whole.
Our model is also limited in that the industry and occupation categories
that we used are broad. Gender earnings differences within these
categories are not reflected and could account for some amount of the
remaining difference. In addition, we did not explicitly model an
individual’s choice of occupation and industry and how these choices
relate to earnings differences. Also, although PSID collects information on
work interruptions, the detail of some of the survey questions limited our
ability to fully explore reasons why individuals were out of the labor force.
We used dummy variables for years to control for general economic
conditions and year-specific effects. In some specifications of the model,
we added national unemployment rate data to the PSID sample in order to
control for national labor market conditions. We did not access the PSID
Geocode Match file, which contains more detailed information on the
location of residence of survey respondents. We could not, therefore,
incorporate a measure of local unemployment rates in the analyses.
@zaprowsdower2879

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I would be interested in a study of same gender income. Meaning, I've worked at jobs where guys and girls have made more, and less than me doing literally the same job.
I know that is anecdotal but I would be interested in that type of study. People who make hiring and wage decisions are human beings and human beings have a wide range of biases.

Also I think the focus to this issue should be toward the system of which we value people.
For instance, I think it's a crime that teachers are paid less than wall street economists. And vastly so.
That doesn't see race or gender, that is simply lobbyists and big money getting richer.

I guess my point is that this debate is so divisive that we argue semantics instead of recognizing how we all share the same problem.
@TuAmigoElMorrocoy

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

hmm I wonder if thats the reason why i can't find a job
also… you're cute :3 HOLLAA!!
@PotterSuppositionalist

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

People who work more earn more, that's basic economics for you. The economist Thomas Sowell analyzed the gender pay gap and concluded it comes down to the choices women make. An employee who abandons their career for family will be less experienced, less skilled and overall less valuable than one who does not. Blame basic logic.
@BadMouse101

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Ooh ooh, I have an idea.
How about we foster a society that is compassionate to one another in both our economic lives and in our social ones, so that our ability to buy things is not simply limited to how much profit we create to our bosses 🙂
@gforgregarious7128

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

A national childcare program, paid parental leave (for both parents), and even mandatory parental leave, are all good ideas to help close the pay gap.

They're all pro-family policies too, so conservatives should favour them as well, right?
@AccioLife13

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

You mentioned how women generally have lower customer satisfaction with similar performances. In my last job, I really noticed the different expectations for men and women. If a customer was talking to a male, they basically had to stand there, nod a little, then answer the question, or help them find the product. They didn't have to smile or even look like they cared, and the company was happy with them. The females were supposed to smile the whole time, look overly concerned, use a "bubbly" voice, make conversation, and then listen and help. We were also held to a higher standard for grooming and neatness. I just wanted to share that experience with you… I have no idea what my coworkers were payed, nor do I really want to know. I don't work there any more, and am a lot happier now.
@PORT.design

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

the1janitor Do you think that more men are hired than women because people tend to hire someone that is the same gender because they feel like they will be able to relate better to that person? And since most leadership positions are currently filled by males, they tend to hire males, who tend to hire males, etc.
@ardenambrose-winters8181

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I like how your example is literally what happens
@BRBhorror

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I fiercely oppose the idea that women make .75 to every man's dollar. However I do agree with you on the .10-.20 difference. I worked at Starbucks, and the starting pay was 9.30. I was making 9.25. I had more pressing matters to attend to at the time, so I forgot about this fact, and didn't do anything about it.

Different fields pay more or less depending on what your doing. Being a kindergarten teacher isn't as hard as working in construction. My boyfriends works in construction, and let me tell you that holy shit, it's hard fucking work. Feminists fail to realize that women go into fields that appeal to them, and construction work isn't appealing to a lot of women.
@ChrisBryer

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

the1janitor 2:19 Thats odd, since i have and have read several studies that done say that at all. It more like a 5% different, not 20%.

It seems like you said in the binning of your video that the percentage on this subject seems to fluctuate a huge amount depending on where you get your data. So it is 10%? 20%? 5%? Am i the only one seeing a problem here?

Oh, and by the way if they do have the same job they will get payed almost exactly the same. Its not the jobs fault that women dont seem to negotiate pay very well.

Also i hate to say this but thanks to third wave feminism the female gender has been turn into a walking, talking mind field when it comes to legal crap. Im just sayin that could be a factor to how often a woman gets the call back for that interview or how much they are offered.

Also, this dont explain women spending habits since they seem to spend more money then men do.

And perhaps you should look up the economist Thomas Sowell, he talks about this in great detail.
@aaronekstrand758

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

This guy is usually pretty close to my own position on polarizing social justice type stuff.
@TheNewMcGoo

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I'm a new subscriber and I'm loving it so far. However one thing that miffed me here is one of the arguments at the beginning saying that women make more money in certain industries. While that's a very real thing, the overall trend is still not in their favor so pointing out teaching as an example of inequality with men behind doesn't really do much to justify the pay gap.
@SymphonyEternally

February 11, 2026 at 7:00 pm

I just think its odd that all things must be equal, we must have complete 50/50 equality in all things, no matter how archaic or random they are. There must be a ratio of 50/50 in all jobs, regardless of how they pertain to each genders strength. The point is that it very likely comes down to negotiation skills with men simply being more aggressive than women. I couldnt imagine being in a firm that was looking to hire and going "lets pay her less, because she is a woman" that simply doesnt make any sense.