As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines

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As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 20, 2014 @05:05AM from the gee-that's-a-lot-of-cash-on-the-table dept.

reifman writes Amazon's hiring so quickly in Seattle that it's on pace to employ 45,000 people or seven percent of the city. But, 75% of these hires are male. While Seattle women earned 86 cents per dollar earned by men in 2012, today, they make only 78 cents per dollar. In "Amageddon: Seattle's Increasingly Obvious Future", I review these and other surprising facts about Amazon's growing impact on the city: we're the fastest growing — now larger than Boston, we have the fastest rising rents, the fourth worst traffic, we're only twelfth in public transit, we're the fifth whitest and getting whiter, we're experiencing record levels of property crime and the amount of office space under construction has nearly doubled to 3.2 million square feet in the past year.

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Here we go again by sinij · 2014-11-20 05:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Here we go again. Timothy, are you angling for a gig at Jezebel?
1. Re:Here we go again by Dr.+Evil · 2014-11-20 05:24 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Previous story was about Barbie and sexism, this one is about pay equity. I think the next story should be about minorities in tech.
  Maybe we'll find out Bill Cosby did a stint for Apple. That would wrap it all up nicely.
2. Re:Here we go again by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-20 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Slashdot has become incredibly racist and sexist lately, I think it's time to go.
  How will we know that you're gone? Could you check in now and again to remind us?
3. Re:Here we go again by blackomegax · 2014-11-20 08:17 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Liberterians are usually sane, pleasant people. AC's are not.
OTOH by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-20 05:15 · Score: 2, Funny

On the other hand, ladies, if you're looking for a husband, try Seattle!
Re:"Getting whiter" by Thanshin · 2014-11-20 05:52 · Score: 3, Funny

As the city gets whiter, it reflects more light, which is bad for cities with long, cold, winters.