Comment on Tech bros' attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages

Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Wisely@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It boils down to choice of career, work/life balance, experience level, and assertiveness.

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  • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Discrimination is still a factor, but yeah, society corrals women into certain fields that don’t pay as much.

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    • vzq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Source?

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    • WhyDoesntThisThingWork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’ve got to be kidding.

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• WhyDoesntThisThingWork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They probably do, they just don’t proactively enforce them.

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