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As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines
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.
You can't think of ANY reason why women might cost a business more than a man. Not one? And you call me a dumbass.
How about Maternity Leave?
How about "sick days" every month?
How about "mommy days" when kids are sick?
How about discrimination lawsuits (real or imagined)?
These things exist. They cost money. They cost productivity. They lower efficiency. If these things didn't exist, a business would be foolish to NOT hire women, since they cost less than men on salary alone. But salary is only part of the human costs associated with employees.
Its the world where people want to be treated the same for acting differently it is a problem. Superficial political correctness is lame, but too many people are beholden to it to actually change how we deal with REAL discrimination.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.