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The claim that America remains a deeply patriarchal society largely rests on remaining gender disparities. The existence of a “gender wage gap,” for instance, is supposedly supported by the claim that “women make $0.77 for every dollar men make.” But women do not make 77 cents to the dollar of what a man makes doing the same work. Women (on average) earn 77 percent of what men earn in different careers, working fewer hours with less overtime. When one accounts for the disparity in the number of hours worked, the level of occupation, career choices, seniority, length of time in the workplace, and various other factors, the “gender wage gap” all but vanishes.
A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy
Rav Arora
This is the question at the heart of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1954 masterwork, *The Lord of the Rings*. Middle-earth is marred by civilizational decline, the loss of hope among men, and a profound sense that the beauty of the past is doomed to decay. This slow fading was the author’s attempt to express something he had felt all his life, which he once described as a “heart-racking sense of the vanished past.”
How to Live Through a Great Decline
The Culturist
There is an old Greek proverb that reads, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Planting Trees in Shade We’ll Never Know
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