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Microsoft Improves Efforts To Offer Equal Pay For Equal Work To Its Employees (windowscentral.com)
An anonymous reader writes: One day before National Equal Pay Day, Microsoft has provided a new update on its efforts to provide equal pay for equal work for all of its employees. Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft's Executive Vice-President for Human Resources, wrote in a blog post: "Today, for every $1 earned by men, our female employees in the U.S. earn 99.8 cents at the same job title and level. Racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. combined earn $1.004 for every $1 earned by their Caucasian counterparts. Breaking it down even further, African American/black employees are at $1.003; Hispanic/Latino(a) employees are at 99.9 cents; and Asian employees are at $1.006 for every $1 earned by Caucasian employees at the same job title and level, respectively." Hogan said she is "encouraged by these results" and that Microsoft will continue to monitor the data and publicly disclose it as part of Microsoft's annual public diversity and inclusion information and data reporting. "Our announcement today is another step forward along the path of greater diversity and inclusion progress at Microsoft, and in society as a whole. Along with our industry peers, the mission of landing intentional, enduring and impactful diversity and inclusion initiatives is one will we continue to pursue vigilantly."
Its no lie. Its probably true that women get less paid for their work. But that has nothing to do with the fact that they are female. I think nobody is as mean and gives a co-worker less money only because they are female. I think it has another reason, very simple: many women work part-time or work in fields that don't pay much. This has nothing to do with the choice of the individual, I guess any female can have a career as successful as a man, its a question of individual choice not of discrimination.
Feminists should just realize that most women chose to raise a family instead of focusing their job as much as men. This is nothing bad or something that needs to be changed. Its free people doing a free choice, and feminists are constantly trying to take that freedom away.
By saying that females who chose to raise their children and do part time work instead of full time work and letting some stranger raise the child are limited and backwards-minded, the feminists just insult millions of females having chosen precisely that model together with their partners.
If a woman wants to let a stranger raise her children, or if she wants the man to take over those duties, its perfectly fine. Just feminists shouldn't dictate what's wrong or right.
I'm not sure how to explain this without sounding like a misogynist, but careers are often more important to men because men are more often judged by income. There is strong social pressure on men to work hard for raises and promotions because of this. Women tend to be socially judged on looks, not earnings, and thus they focus more on that.
This is not saying women are inherently lazy, only that there is less social pressure on them to succeed in the work-place, and thus more women on average just coast in their career.
Women also end up having to deal with family issues more, in part because they care more about family and home, and in part because men are on average domestically flaky. This means women will focus on domestic issues more, distracting them from career.
I'm not sure how to measure or address these, but if they are not addressed, there could be some unpleasant side-effects.
Table-ized A.I.
Men can negotiate harder. The same studies have shown that when women negotiate the way men normally do, they're written down as "bitchy" (whereas men get labeled as "assertive").