Pay gap and lesbian mothers

The wage gap in lesbian mothers' couples closes at five years.

GAYLES.TV.- The 80% of the pay differences between men and women It is due to motherhood. To delve into that gap and know if it is biological or cultural factors, Emily Nix and Martin Eckho Andresen they have made a study in which they wonder if the professional career in the case of homosexual mothers suffers in the same way.

The authors use a database includes some 600 lesbian couples and a quarter of a million heterosexual couples. And they come to the conclusion that motherhood in lesbian couples is very different from that of heterosexual couples.

Specifically, it takes five years to match the conditions prior to the birth of the first child, as shown in the graph above. In the case of heterosexual couples, mothers suffer a decrease of an 20% in their income while the career of parents continues normally. In contrast, the impact on lesbian couples is different: the biological mother experiences a reduction in her income of only 13%. Your partner, unlike what happens with heterosexual men, suffers a negative impact on their income of about 5%. And instead of perpetrating over time, the wage gap disappears after five years.

And if you look at the graph, when the parents are gay men, this salary gap disappears. You can draw the conclusions yourself.

They also prove that the school performance of the children of lesbian mothers is significantly higher than that of the children of heterosexual families. One of the applicable solutions in public policies is to improve and make more effective access to day care centers. It has been proven that this measure is much more successful than extending paternity leave.