Anecdote != data. That was one single study that found that to be the case, and there were some methodological flaws in its execution. You need to take editorialized "studies" like that with a huge grain of salt.
This is what's known as "apex fallacy". You're looking at only the top echelons of society and see men, but completely ignoring the glass cellar where men are the majority of drug addicted, imprisoned, and workplace dead to name but a few.
Furthermore, women have power in society, probably more so than men. In the US women are the largest voting bloc in the nation. If men are the majority of the electorate it's because women wanted them there! And don't get me started on the fact women control roughly 70-80% of all disposable income here.
"While still uncommon, egg-freezing allows women to remove and store eggs when they are in their prime fertility window, which often overlaps with prime career-advancement years. The quality of a woman’s eggs declines as she gets older, putting many women in a bind about whether to have children in their 20s and 30s. Egg freezing allows women to stockpile healthy eggs while advancing their careers or waiting to meet a partner with whom they’d like to start a family.
But the procedure is expensive, costing approximately $10,000 per round, and many doctors recommend two rounds to ensure the best possible batch of cells. In general, health insurance plans don’t cover the elective procedure."
The last sentence is key. You can bet we are inching towards this $10,000 elective procedure being mandated by American health insurance, which means men will be the ones paying for it through taxes as demonstrated here:
The sheer fact Apple and facebook are doing this is a "slippery slope". Give feminists an inch, and they will take a mile, and then blame you for not giving two miles. And the idea of giving $10,000 to a man to start a family? Nahhhhhhhh.
"Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming"
Sure, that's a valid statement...when you include casual gaming like Bejeweled and Farmville. When you drill down to AAA titles though the truth comes out, which is that women are a tiny fraction of the marketplace.
> Or should they STFU and accept the fact that males and females tend to like different things, and short of forcing students into majors they don't like, you're never gonna get perfect diversity?
That's question is at the very heart of this documentary:
Good point. It could entirely be explained by women's propensity to disengage from a career for a variety of reasons unrelated to what the article holds. For example, a lack of socializing, which women naturally gravitate towards as was discovered in this documentary:
> In that situation what would you have liked her to do?
How about letting employers offer benefits that they want instead of forcing them to subsidize other people's lifestyle choices? Forcing employers to give mothers time off makes no more sense than forcing employers to given people off if the get a new puppy. It's a personal choice, plain and simple.
Doubling the pool of potential workers is exactly why wages have stagnated for the past 40 years and the middle class is being hit so hard. My parent's generation could afford to raise several kids with one breadwinner in a solid middle-class neighborhood. Those days are over now that women have entered the workforce en mass. It boils down to supply and demand. Women entering the workforce equals a surplus of labor, hence wages went down in the aggregate. And people wonder why women are less happy with their lives today than they were 40+ years ago.
The disservice feminism did for women was convincing them that joining the rat race was "empowerment". Most guys would trade places with women in a heartbeat if it meant having all of their worldly wants and needs provided for them in exchange of keeping the house clean and spending time with their family.
It's actually pretty consistent how it's been applied with underage kids sexting each other. In the cases I'm aware of when someone has been prosecuted over this stuff, all the girls have been given a pass for the creation of said material. Instead it's the boys they sent them to who were prosecuted for possessing "child porn".
It's a complete double standard and needs to stop, but because it exists Maroney is in no threat of being arrested. If she were a he, then maybe.
A simple solution is to throttle/hide accounts of those who do not initiate contact. If women sit around expecting men to do all the work then their accounts would be hidden from searches until they initiate contact with someone.
I'd also make any given account only contactable by 3 people in a 24 hour period to also help throttle the top 20% from being overloaded with messages.
Every time you hear about a gender gap in STEM, it's because someone didn't do their homework and are operating from a false premise. The truth is there's no gender imbalance in STEM. This is this is the best kept secret out there: they omit biological _sciences_ from the "STEM" definition because women are an overwhelming majority of those fields. When you add them back in there is. no. gap.
This is all just the result of gender feminists playing games with terminology to benefit their pet projects. It's since taken on it's own life and now people think we need more women in STEM. The REAL gender gap is in education and academia. Men are only about 13% of school teachers and that's got to change if we want our kids to grow up with a balanced view of the genders.
It's getting close at 57-60%, which is where it's at last time I checked. 66% is what they're predicting by 2020. One analyst quipped that if trends continue the last American male will graduate with a college degree in 2067:
"Tom Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, warned that if statistical trends were to continue at their current rate there would be no men graduating from college after 2067."
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I'd be happy as hell if we passed the Equal Rights Amendment, minus the Hayden rider. It's the Hayden rider that makes it untenable.
They need more women in programming to double the pool of available workers so they can pay folks less. Supply & demand.
Is this is shit test or is she legitimately annoyed by the sound? It may very well be she's just testing the OP to see how far she can push him.
http://www.consad.com/content/...
"If you compare childless women to men, the pay gap completely disappears."
Actually, it flip-flops with young childless women in metropolitan areas making 8% more on average.
http://content.time.com/time/b...
http://online.wsj.com/articles...
http://i.imgur.com/IeUR8Zb.jpg
Sources are cited in the fine print. And then there's this:
http://www.consad.com/content/...
Anecdote != data. That was one single study that found that to be the case, and there were some methodological flaws in its execution. You need to take editorialized "studies" like that with a huge grain of salt.
We're already bordering on being overcrowded as it is. Saying we need even more people is just a cop-out.
How about the fact men work more hours and more dangerous jobs?
http://i.imgur.com/IeUR8Zb.jpg
Exactly. If you really want to see why there's a pay gap, look at this:
http://i.imgur.com/IeUR8Zb.jpg
Men work more hours, more dangerous jobs, and so on. It's a no-brainer that IN THE AGGREGATE men make more money than women.
This is what's known as "apex fallacy". You're looking at only the top echelons of society and see men, but completely ignoring the glass cellar where men are the majority of drug addicted, imprisoned, and workplace dead to name but a few.
Furthermore, women have power in society, probably more so than men. In the US women are the largest voting bloc in the nation. If men are the majority of the electorate it's because women wanted them there! And don't get me started on the fact women control roughly 70-80% of all disposable income here.
From this article on the subject:
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/20...
The last sentence is key. You can bet we are inching towards this $10,000 elective procedure being mandated by American health insurance, which means men will be the ones paying for it through taxes as demonstrated here:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/1...
The sheer fact Apple and facebook are doing this is a "slippery slope". Give feminists an inch, and they will take a mile, and then blame you for not giving two miles. And the idea of giving $10,000 to a man to start a family? Nahhhhhhhh.
"Adult women are now the largest demographic in gaming"
Sure, that's a valid statement...when you include casual gaming like Bejeweled and Farmville. When you drill down to AAA titles though the truth comes out, which is that women are a tiny fraction of the marketplace.
So what you're saying is version 1.0 of the Star Trek Holodeck now exists.
> Or should they STFU and accept the fact that males and females tend to like different things, and short of forcing students into majors they don't like, you're never gonna get perfect diversity?
That's question is at the very heart of this documentary:
http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...
tl;dw - men and women are predisposed to gravitate towards different kinds of work.
Good point. It could entirely be explained by women's propensity to disengage from a career for a variety of reasons unrelated to what the article holds. For example, a lack of socializing, which women naturally gravitate towards as was discovered in this documentary:
http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...
> In that situation what would you have liked her to do?
How about letting employers offer benefits that they want instead of forcing them to subsidize other people's lifestyle choices? Forcing employers to give mothers time off makes no more sense than forcing employers to given people off if the get a new puppy. It's a personal choice, plain and simple.
Doubling the pool of potential workers is exactly why wages have stagnated for the past 40 years and the middle class is being hit so hard. My parent's generation could afford to raise several kids with one breadwinner in a solid middle-class neighborhood. Those days are over now that women have entered the workforce en mass. It boils down to supply and demand. Women entering the workforce equals a surplus of labor, hence wages went down in the aggregate. And people wonder why women are less happy with their lives today than they were 40+ years ago.
The disservice feminism did for women was convincing them that joining the rat race was "empowerment". Most guys would trade places with women in a heartbeat if it meant having all of their worldly wants and needs provided for them in exchange of keeping the house clean and spending time with their family.
It's actually pretty consistent how it's been applied with underage kids sexting each other. In the cases I'm aware of when someone has been prosecuted over this stuff, all the girls have been given a pass for the creation of said material. Instead it's the boys they sent them to who were prosecuted for possessing "child porn".
It's a complete double standard and needs to stop, but because it exists Maroney is in no threat of being arrested. If she were a he, then maybe.
And of course only premium accounts get access to this filtering feature.
A simple solution is to throttle/hide accounts of those who do not initiate contact. If women sit around expecting men to do all the work then their accounts would be hidden from searches until they initiate contact with someone.
I'd also make any given account only contactable by 3 people in a 24 hour period to also help throttle the top 20% from being overloaded with messages.
Every time you hear about a gender gap in STEM, it's because someone didn't do their homework and are operating from a false premise. The truth is there's no gender imbalance in STEM. This is this is the best kept secret out there: they omit biological _sciences_ from the "STEM" definition because women are an overwhelming majority of those fields. When you add them back in there is. no. gap.
This is all just the result of gender feminists playing games with terminology to benefit their pet projects. It's since taken on it's own life and now people think we need more women in STEM. The REAL gender gap is in education and academia. Men are only about 13% of school teachers and that's got to change if we want our kids to grow up with a balanced view of the genders.
It's getting close at 57-60%, which is where it's at last time I checked. 66% is what they're predicting by 2020. One analyst quipped that if trends continue the last American male will graduate with a college degree in 2067:
http://www.eagleforum.org/educ...
"Tom Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, warned that if statistical trends were to continue at their current rate there would be no men graduating from college after 2067."
More info:
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/...
You completely misstated the issues and are railing against a straw man. Have fun with that.
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