Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I also always found it weird when I hear that women choose jobs that don’t get paid more. As opposed to people asking why are womens jobs have been historically devalued.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because jobs are paid not by how valuable they are to society but by how much profit they generate for their employers.

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    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think ideally in a capitalist society we’d want that to be true. However, cops are paid more than teachers, administrators are paid more than nurses. There’s a lot of what you can get away with as well. I genuinely don’t think we live in a meritocracy. We also have cronyism and nepotism and corruption. If what you were saying were perfectly true, we would be be having all these union battles would we?

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not profit, but how hard the role is to fill. More supply, less demand in terms of salary.

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Teachers are in short supply and get shit pay.

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• BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because men and women have different preferences? How is this a problem? Should men and women like the same things?

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• cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  transgender women are overrepresented in IT

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