Even On eBay, Women Get Paid Less For Their Labor (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Women in the United States are paid only 79 cents on the dollar compared with men doing the same job. But at least gender melts away in the digital economy of the Internet, right? Nope. A study of more than 1 million auctions on the online commerce site eBay finds that women receive consistently less money than men for selling the very same products. T: The oft-cited "cents on the dollar" claims, though, ought perhaps be taken with a grain of salt; it depends who's counting, and what.

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[AmiMoJo]

Using your gendered name is not "telling people", it's not going out of your way to hide.

This is a very typical bigoted complaint. "People should hide attributes I don't like, so I don't discriminate against them." Sorry, but a same sex couple wearing wedding rings, holding hands, mentioning that they are unavailable this weekend because they are at their husband's/wife's family gathering is just the normal way people live and if it offends you then it really is your problem.