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In Tech, Wage Gender Gap Worsens For Women Over Time, and It's Worst For Black Women (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: According to a new study involving more than 120,000 job offers transacted on Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate is still making less than her male peers for the same work, and sometimes far less. Hired's data shows that 63 percent of the time women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company, with white women offered 4 percent less on average, and women more broadly offered up to 50 percent less in the most extreme examples. Along the same vein, for one out of every 10 job openings that Hired analyzed, companies offered white men salaries that were at least 20 percent higher than those offered to women. According to the American Association of University Women, it might take another 136 years for the pay gap to disappear entirely. Perhaps more illuminating in this new report is what happens to women's salaries over time, and who is receiving the lowest pay of all for the same jobs at the same companies: Latina and black women. [...] It found that white women with four years or less of experience actually ask for more money than their male counterparts -- possibly because they're armed with information about what the market is paying for more entry-level jobs. A gap in the other direction begins to appear in candidates with six or more years of experience, however, with white women in tech both asking for less than their white male counterparts and receiving it. Indeed, over time and across the country, white women in tech earn an average of .90 cents for every dollar made by their male peers for the same work.
Talk about a nonissue. These negroid women aren't smart enough in general to do tech jobs. I've had around two dozen work for me over the years here at Microsoft, and not a one was useful.
Correlation != causation. Let's think this through. If a fully qualified black woman who is a perfect match for a given job is perceived as less qualified due to subconscious biases on the part of the hiring personnel, so the company offers her the job at 75% of the fully qualified white man's salary and she takes it because all the other companies she applied to did the same thing, and the company is going to continue to undervalue her as an employee on the basis of her skin color and gender, why aren't all businesses hiring black women and telling white men to pound sand?
Oh, right, because humans suck at judging who is objectively qualified without bringing in all kinds of subjective crap and because her blackness and femaleness affects their perceptions of her desirability as an employee regardless of what it says on the resume. And if due to these factors she only gets offers at 75% of an equivalently qualified white man, it's not like she has a choice about how much money she can make. This isn't about qualifications alone - perception on the part of the hiring agencies and the options available to the potential employee play a role too.
The point of the rest of your post -- that women get paid less because they're (a) not interested in the jobs that pay more money (because the hours associated with IT are so much worse than the hours associated with nursing and school teaching?) and (b) intrinsically poorer employees (because men don't have families?) -- is garbage. The article isn't saying "women get paid less because there are fewer of them in the workforce" or "women get paid less because they're interested in different jobs", it's saying "women get paid less even when they're doing the same job and are not intrinsically poorer employees".
Just because you can't perceive your own subconscious biases doesn't mean they don't exist, and just because you aren't aware of pernicious biases in the actions of those around you doesn't mean they aren't there.