Shevardino wrote:Has any poster here remarked that the pay gap is a lie yet? Same work is same pay. The "at the same job" part tacked onto the gender pay gap is a very common misquote (something you can literally say "Thanks Obama," too, since he also has said it). The average woman makes less than the average man. Not "a woman gets payed about 77% what a man gets payed at the same job." Woman on average work lower paying jobs (there are many other issues with the robustness of the statistic, for instance, it doesn't include hours worked, meaning even at the same job, a man can work overtime consistently and of course get payed more than a woman coworker, and men do work significantly more overtime on average than women). Ever single female STEM major I knew changed to humanities majors before the end of freshman year, and it's an extremely common trend across the entire nation. Most women can't make the cut, or don't utilize the massive amounts of woman-only resources and opportunities that fill my university mailbox to the brim every week. The only women I see around the lab I work at are all Asian immigrants except for one. ONE. Something needs to be done to encourage women to use the resources available to them without lowering standards of high education/skill fields to meet arbitrary employment quotas. Maybe a shift in cultural expectations. Men are expected to be the independent bread-winners of every family, and this could be the pressure that pushes many men through long arduous hours of hard studying to do things they hate for money they are expected to earn. Surely there must be some way to redistribute this such that both genders are expected to be successful, hardworking, and independent.
Or, maybe, we should start thinking about how better workers get paid more, regardless of their sex.