It boils down to choice of career, work/life balance, experience level, and assertiveness.
Comment on Tech bros' attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages
Gigan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“In the UK, they pay women 26 percent less than their male counterparts,”
Wow, I’m surprised the UK doesn’t have laws preventing gender based pay discrimination.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
spend the first 20 years of their lives conditioning girls to be demure
mfw when women are not as assertive as men
We live in a fuckin society
MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Discrimination is still a factor, but yeah, society corrals women into certain fields that don’t pay as much.
vzq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is even better! When a field changes from male dominated to female dominated, incomes across the field plummet!
We just don’t value a woman’s labor as much as we do a man’s.
WhyDoesntThisThingWork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’ve got to be kidding.
WhyDoesntThisThingWork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sure they do and it’s misleading stat. These studies always find a way to get the result they want instead of the one that’s honest.
0x0@programming.dev 11 months ago
They probably do, they just don’t proactively enforce them.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Most of these studies are nonsensical and don’t take into account things like whether the person works full or part time, or looks at average lifetime earnings. Both of which completely ignore that women very often either stop working or go part time when pregnant/raising children.
Anybody who actually thinks that for the same job a woman’s wage is 26% less needs their head examined. It’s not true and only gets pushed in media because it riles both sides up and gets clicks/engagement.
If governments actually wanted to do anything about the average lifetime earnings difference between men and women, they should make getting childcare cheaper, because it disproportionately affects women. But they don’t.
Wisely@lemm.ee 11 months ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Really? Not one? You walk into a McDonald’s, for example, and you think based on their gender they’re paid different?
They should take the employer to court in that case. They will win their case easily