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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.
By all realistic studies it doesn't exist.
Studies showing the pay gap don't account for reduced hours, child birth, different professions, different career path, etc.
Time to get the popcorn, methinks.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Men should be more involved in nursing, hospitals and schools. Women should to be more involved as "garbage technician" and mechanic...
if the main reason is women not working full time 40 hours but that's what employers want, the discussion is over and nothing need be done. Cue the twitter SJW and their neckbeard manlette supporters, I've written something offensive.
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.
[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.
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 women are really being paid less than men for the same work, wouldn't it make sense financially to hire women only? Even a small company of 50 employees can save a million dollars a year just by hiring women instead of men. As the owner it would go directly into my pocket. Who doesn't like to make an extra million dollars a year?
Employers will go to great lengths to hire the cheapest labor for any given task. They will even violate labor laws and risk prison by hiring illegal aliens, that's how much business owners love to save money (admittedly the risk of prison for hiring illegals was very small in the past, prior to Trump). Therefore if the gender gap is as real as the feminists claim, every CEO should be scouring the earth for all the women they could hire.
And how dare you give me a ticket for speeding when there are murderers to catch!
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Imagine what one could accomplish if there was a gender wage gap.
If there really was a gender wage gap, anyone would be free to open a business, hire only female employees, pay them less due to the gender wage gap, use this competitive advantage to grow the business, capture market share, profit.
Same thing applies to the premise that diversity makes us better. If this was true, one could just have a super diverse group of employees, and one would then out compete other less diverse groups/businesses etc.
None of this happens in the real world.
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Yeah! Too right. And because people are still getting murdered in Iraq we should stop trying to address deaths from obesity in the West! Focus!!
Jesus f'in christ. How many times does this need to be debunked? Please don't turn into Huffington "lack of credibility" Post.
encourage men to abandon high paying STEM fields and opt for lower paying fields like primary education and service jobs, [...]
You jest, but this is a serious problem. Men who work in early childhood education face a lot of discrimination.
It's getting better for stay-at-home dads, though.
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tl;dr of the pay gap issue: Women, who are free to choose their career paths, are making decisions feminists don't like, so we should push women to make the career decisions feminists want them to make instead. Seriously, the "pay gap" is a terrible metric for equality. Women are free to choose their careers and their work-life balance and they are making different career choices than men, so of course there is a pay gap. It would odd if there wasn't. There are only 2 ways to eliminate the pay gap: Remove autonomy from women and/or men by controlling their career decisions, and/or have the state control salary by either inflating women's salaries, deflating men's salaries, or paying everyone the same. And the irony of all this is that the people who seem to push the "gender gap" narrative the most often seem to have chosen degrees that have terrible and/or low-paying career prospects.
the jobs men are best at (e.g. blue collar & engineering) are going away. Jobs women are good at (medical, knowledge, arts, etc) aren't. Barring massive societal changes the pay gap will go the other way in 20 years.
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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.
That's only because many women lack basic rights in the first world too.
How many girls in the first world cannot legally attend school? Or cannot attend for fear of a militia group assaulting the school, overwhelming the police, and kidnapping all the girls into a life of slavery?
How many women in the first world are forbidden from legally driving? How many women in the first world face the threat of vigilante attack and mutilation by the religious police for not being sufficiently conservative in dress or appearance?
How many women in the first world have no say in who they marry?
I could go on and on, but we both know you're full of shit. Women in the first world face such terrors as being criticized on social media, or being paid in a way that still puts them in the top 1% of income worldwide.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
If you want to be part of it, then choose to be part of it like the rest of us business world men and women do. You aren't so special that the whole world is gonna rearrange itself for your schedule.
What utter bullshit.
I'll believe the business world runs "9-5" when you shut down your corporate website promptly at 5PM local time every weekday, and keep it shut down all weekend.
From the creation of an entire digital world to 24-hour Walmarts, along with helping resolve the issues related to "business hours" traffic congestion, this world needs to fucking learn to adapt and operate to accommodate all.
Of the about 4500 annual workplace fatalities, 92% are men.
http://www.aei.org/publication...
Because women tend to work in safer occupations than men on average, they have the advantage of being able to work for more than a decade longer than men before they experience the same number of male occupational fatalities in a single year.
Economic theory tells us that the “gender occupational fatality gap” explains part of the “gender pay gap” because a disproportionate number of men work in higher-risk, but higher-paid occupations like coal mining (almost 100% male), fire fighters (95% male), police officers (87% male), correctional officers (72% male), farming, fishing, and forestry (77% male), and construction (97.5% male); BLS data here. On the other hand, a disproportionate number of women work in relatively low-risk industries, often with lower pay to partially compensate for the safer, more comfortable indoor office environments in occupations like office and administrative support (73% female), education, training, and library occupations (74% female), and health care (75% female). The higher concentrations of men in riskier occupations with greater occurrences of workplace injuries and fatalities suggest that more men than women are willing to expose themselves to those work-related injuries or death in exchange for higher wages. In contrast, women more than men prefer lower risk occupations with greater workplace safety, and are frequently willing to accept lower wages for the reduced probability of work-related injury or death.
Publishing everyone's pay doesn't mean dictating a single pay for every job. It means you can see the distribution of pay for each job. If you're being paid less than average, you can then take those statistics to your boss and say "hey, why am I being paid less than average", and he can say "because you perform below average". I guess the obvious next step in negotiations there is to find some kind of performance metrics to compare to.
FWIW you can actually find average pay statistics for all kinds of jobs at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website (bls.gov), and I've used that extensively in pay negotiations in recent years to great effect. When the boss is always saying "you're the best person in this position we've ever had" and then you can show him government stats saying average people in this position get paid more than you, that really does something for negotiations.
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Is this comment an article on The Onion? What exactly are you suggesting? Great paying jobs are systematically given pay cuts on a real basis once the patriarchy sees a critical mass of women joining the field?
Why are you posting bullshit arguments all over slashdot when there are oppressed North Koreans to help?
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