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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.
Boys still behind girls AT EVERY STAGE OF EDUCATION.
But for some reason the feminists talk about EQUALITY while only whining about women choosing the wrong courses, working fewer hours for fewer years and for some reason sometimes getting paid less.
The gender pay gap is a myth. If it really existed, nobody would hire men. Men work longer, and in much more dangerous jobs, and therefore make more money.
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
It's worse because they demand that we change working hours to cater to the needs of women. In other words, by virtue of being a woman, work hours get shifted to meet your needs. I would argue that in environments where this would work, it's already happening (regardless of gender).
That's just a reasonable accommodation. Something that employers are required to provide under the ADA.
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"Somebody has to do something. It's just incredibly pathetic it has to be us."
--- Jerry Garcia
I used to work as a male nurse.
I'm in IT now.
Not because the pay is better. It's not. I was pulling down HUGE money. Not "rock star programmer" pay or anything. But I was pulling in well over 100K a year.
It's because the institutional environment can be a ridiculously hostile environment for men.
Bitchy co-workers who think they're going to unload their work on you and you'll do it because they have a vagina.
Lazy co-workers who want to ignore proper, safe patient movement procedure because you happen to have a penis, therefore you're Superman and can benchpress an aircraft carrier. So that 600 lb guy in a steel reinforced "big boy" bed who just had both hips replaced is no problem for you.
The fucking closet druggies.
The golddiggers whoring themselves at doctors and medical students...
I got sick of it, and went to do something else.
2044. Simply make (private sector) corporations publish ALL of their employee salaries publicly.
Public sector places already largely do this. It works pretty well.
People get pissed off when they see someone with the same job title and experience making more money than them.
Not quite, but almost. If you look at competently done studies, you find that there is a gender pay-gap of around 5% or so. That is mostly attributed to women generally negotiating worse than men do. But even that is shrinking, because you can actually negotiate the salary in less and less jobs. Were you cannot, no gender pay gap exists.
So there really is nothing that needs doing, except to stop listening to these idiots that cannot read statistics (or are intentionally lying).
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Making everyone work weird crazy hours dependant on when volleyball practice ends for timmy is a reasonable accommodation?
Also the entire premise seems retarded. They expect women to look after the kids, and then come in after they go in sleep to put in 8 hours of office work? Not because the women are struggling, not because they are poor, but because the people with the spreadsheets think that the statistics would look nicer if women put in an average of 3 more hours of work a day.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.