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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 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.