Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
lobut@lemmy.ca 1 year agoI 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.
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.
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?
jet@hackertalks.com 1 year ago
Not profit, but how hard the role is to fill. More supply, less demand in terms of salary.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Teachers are in short supply and get shit pay.