{"id":15672,"date":"2014-03-17T04:41:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=15672"},"modified":"2014-03-17T04:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T03:44:11","slug":"in-us-male-babysitters-make-more-than-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/in-us-male-babysitters-make-more-than-females\/","title":{"rendered":"In US, Male Babysitters Make More than Females?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it the scarcity principle? \u00a0The Atlantic reports: \u00a0If scarcity imparts value, male babysitters have it all figured out. \u00a0Less than 3 percent of all babysitters are men,\u00a0but they still earn $15 an hour. \u00a0Females going rate is $14.50.more than their female counterparts. \u00a0The gender-wage gap penetrates even the most feminine of feminized professions.\u00a0Even female administrative assistants, teachers, and nurses\u2014three fields that are dominated by women\u2014still make less than their male colleagues by about 10 percent.<\/p>\n

Is it because men are more confident and can command higher wages? Or because there are so few male babysitters that the ones who are drawn to this sort of work\u00a0are uniquely qualified in some way\u2014maybe they’re beloved, master fort-builders, for example, or actual child-rearing specialists.<\/p>\n

The best paid babysitters are actually in their late 20s, rather than their teens or 30s. And if you want to make some serious change watching other peoples’ kids on occasion, move to New York, where the going rate is $17.50 an hour, which is more than the\u00a0average income Mississippi and nine other states.<\/p>\n

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Is it the scarcity principle? \u00a0The Atlantic reports: \u00a0If scarcity imparts value, male babysitters have it all figured out. \u00a0Less than 3 percent of all babysitters are men,\u00a0but they still earn $15 an hour. \u00a0Females going rate is $14.50.more than … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurs","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t