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How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article on FastCompany: The wage gap in developing countries could be reduced by 35% by 2030 and eliminated by 2044, according to a new report from consultancy Accenture. But in order achieve pay parity, women need to be more involved in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields, the report notes. But, workplaces will have to change too. One of the biggest barriers to women attaining equal pay is that many women don't work full-time. They take part-time jobs in order to balance responsibilities at home or within a family -- work that is generally unpaid. If workplaces provide more flexible schedules, allowing women to work 40 hours outside of a typical 9-5 schema, more women would be able to work full-time.
[quote]One of the biggest barriers to women attaining equal pay is that many women don't work full-time. They take part-time jobs in order to balance responsibilities at home or within a family -- work that is generally unpaid. If workplaces provide more flexible schedules, allowing women to work 40 hours outside of a typical 9-5 schema, more women would be able to work full-time.[/quote]
Review the logic of that statement again... we take part time jobs to gain more time at home / with family... and then we should spend more of that time to work more to get 40 hours per week...
How about understanding that there's nothing wrong with not working full-time.
If you compare men and women of equal skill, education, and experience, there is no gap. Fuck off with this bullshit.
If women are really being paid less than men for the same work, wouldn't it make sense financially to hire women only?
Yes, and this happens. For instance, in Japan women are often paid less than men for cultural reasons that are hard to change. So many American companies with offices in Japan hire mostly women and get a lot of very skilled and capable people for less pay than their Japanese competitors. This also works in India and in Islamic countries. It doesn't work in China, where women have higher status.
Interestingly enough in the last couple of decades certain societies closed the gap between the male/female " successful" suicides. You know where that is - in Scandinavia, the most emancipated society on Earth. Bottom line - once society starts treating women as men, the women kill themselves. So much for the privileged male...
I looked at the stats, taking the suicide rates by country from wikipedia and the list of OCED and Scandinavian countries and did some analysis. ( better formatted here http://pastebin.com/dyAYAmJz )
Columns are suicide rate, then by males and females:
southkorea 28.9 41.7 18.0
hungary 19.1 32.4 7.4
japan 18.5 26.9 10.1
poland 16.6 30.5 3.8
latvia 16.2 30.7 4.3
finland 14.8 22.2 7.5
belgium 14.2 21.0 7.7
iceland 14.0 21.0 6.7
estonia 13.6 24.9 3.8
czechrepublic 12.5 21.5 3.9
slovenia 12.4 20.8 4.4
france 12.3 19.3 6.0
chile 12.2 19.0 5.8
unitedstates 12.1 19.4 5.2
austria 11.5 18.2 5.4
sweden 11.1 16.2 6.1
ireland 11.0 16.9 5.2
australia 10.6 16.1 5.2
slovakia 10.1 18.5 2.5
canada 9.8 14.9 4.8
newzealand 9.6 14.4 5.0
switzerland 9.2 13.6 5.1
germany 9.2 14.5 4.1
norway 9.1 13.0 5.2
denmark 8.8 13.6 4.1
luxembourg 8.7 13.0 4.4
portugal 8.2 13.6 3.5
netherlands 8.2 11.7 4.8
turkey 7.9 11.8 4.2
unitedkingdom 6.2 9.8 2.6
israel 5.9 9.8 2.3
spain 5.1 8.2 2.2
italy 4.7 7.6 1.9
mexico 4.2 7.1 1.7
greece 3.8 6.3 1.3
mean = 11.1514
mean ratio = 3.85731
mean male = 17.7171
mean female = 5.03429
scandi mean = 11.56
scandi mean ratio = 2.91343
scandi mean male = 17.2
scandi mean female = 5.92
End result is that Scandinavia is pretty much in the middle of OCED. The female suicide rate is slightly elevated compared to the OCED average, but not very far out. The numbers certainly don't support the hyperbole of your claims.
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