Posted by: jacob crawford
Posted by: Seggi31
Posted by: Connor CMC
And all of these mentioned that what they major in is a big factor in the gap. Try more, fgt.
How does that change the fact that they're paid less?
Posted by: ABotelho
Hijacked? No. Tainted? Yes. Ask any average man. They'll tell you how much they think feminists are crazy -blam!-es. You wouldn't dare tell another guy you're a feminist, he might get the impression you're gonna chop off your own dick. It's derogatory at this point, and that's clear to anybody who pays attention to the world around them.
That's not because of 'extremist feminists', it's because of the straw feminists MRAs and other anti-feminists create.
Think of it like mean, median and mode. There are different ways of calculating the average income. In these articles, it is not really looking at field specifics, such as those comparing female retail managers to male retail managers, but rather female lawyer and female cashier to male doctor and male farm hand. It isn't field specific, so it doesn't do much good. Thus, if men are going for jobs that are higher paying, of course there will be a wage gap.
While there is inequality amongst men and women in the specific fields, these articles aren't helping much.While I admit the sources are probably not the end-all be-all of the argument, I was in a bind to show him evidence where they simply assumed I had none.
While there is no field specific data I can find it absolute, extensive terms, that doesn't disqualify the idea of discrimination against women in terms of compensation. Women aren't earning less solely because they take lesser jobs. Women haven't conveniently just decided to pursue lesser jobs, they receive lower pay as an extension for being frequently passed over, not considered or removed from higher paying positions because of their gender.
Women having lesser pay is the effect of the causes of lesser jobs, lesser opportunity, not the other way around.