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All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech

Posted by timothy on from the cash-on-the-table-or-not? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Synthia Tan writes that when you investigate the actual data, controlling for non-gender factors (like number of hours worked) the gender pay gap seems to disappear. 'A longitudinal study of female engineers in the 1980s showed a wage penalty of essentially zero.' In some cases women make more than men: women who work between 30 and 39 hours a week make 111% of what their male counterparts make." The researchers were studying more recent data, too; what are things like on this front where you work?

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  1. Re:Yeah, but women want it all by cyborg_zx · · Score: 5, Informative

    it's been my experience that a feminist vision of "equality"

    Why on Earth would anyone accuse you of being a sexist merely on the basis of your making sweeping generalizations about what you think an entire gender group means by "equality", based on your limited experience with a few members of that group?

    Feminist = entire gender group?

    Bloody feminazis demanding that individuals be treated as individuals.

    Might want to actually try seeing what these people are saying because it's about as far from that as one can get.