{"id":339856,"date":"2017-12-17T09:10:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gender-pay-gap-caused-by-girls-aspiring-to-lower-paid-jobs\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:10:50","slug":"gender-pay-gap-caused-by-girls-aspiring-to-lower-paid-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gender-pay-gap-caused-by-girls-aspiring-to-lower-paid-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender Pay Gap Caused By Girls Aspiring to Lower-Paid Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2017\/12\/15\/gender-pay-gap-girls-aiming-jobs\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>December 15, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>An important driver behind the so-called gender pay gap is that teenage girls aspire to lower-paid careers than boys, according to a major new study.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Analysing data collected from nearly 8,000 teenagers in Britain, researchers at University College London (UCL)\u2019s Institute for Education found that the careers 14-year-old girls highlighted as their ideal future jobs paid 27 per cent or \u00a36.49 less per hour than those chosen by boys of the same age.<\/p>\n<p>While both sexes <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/2017\/12\/13\/gender-pay-gap-perpetuated-teenage-girls-want-jobs-pay-less\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">named<\/a> high-paying careers among their top jobs, researchers found that a significant pay gap between the choices of the two groups remained even after they excluded from calculations the aspirations of boys who wanted to become highly-paid professional sports stars.<\/p>\n<p>The jobs most popular amongst teenage girls in the sample were careers in medicine and law, as well as a secondary school teacher, a singer, a vet, a nurse and a midwife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2017\/12\/15\/gender-pay-gap-girls-aiming-jobs\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, December 15, 2017  at  8:15 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/study-gender-pay-gap-caused-by-girls-aspiring-to-lower-paid-jobs.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/study-gender-pay-gap-caused-by-girls-aspiring-to-lower-paid-jobs.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartDecember 15, 2017 An important driver behind the so-called gender pay gap is that teenage girls aspire to lower-paid careers than boys, according to a major new study. 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