Women Earn 98% As Much As Men (Economist, Print Edition)

chambertlo · 2017-12-01T00:44:14+00:00

Considering that women can get pregnant whenever they want, take off almost a year (with pay) and affect the companies bottom line negatively if they choose not to return, I feel that this is unfair to men. Men are actually getting the short end of the stick and no one seems to give a fuck.

dontpet · 2017-12-01T03:07:02+00:00

The article doesn't give a source for the data. When I looked up how much single women earn vs single men, women earn more. In America it was 8 percent more. In England it was a few percent more.

Get married, have a baby and it all becomes pretty obvious.

So couples combine income at that point and the earning difference means nothing. Sure, divorce can happen to some but in America they still get alimony.

2017-12-01T01:58:32+00:00

What I find interesting is that this article essentially just shifts the goal posts.

It's not that men seek out higher paying jobs, it's that male dominated industries pay more. It's not that women seek out jobs with fewer responsibilities, more flexible schedules, and more local work, it's that female dominated industries pay less.

It's not that male dominated industries actively discriminate, but women don't apply to those industries because of language cues that indicate that it's a high pressure job that will have a lot more men in it.

By the time you reach the bottom of the article, women are dishrags. They have virtually no agency, they are pulled hither and thither by the forces of society, and don't have enough backbone to even withstand the language in job descriptions.

At least they admit that there's stigma against men in many female dominated positions. That's a nice start.

Title	Women Earn 98% As Much As Men (Economist, Print Edition)
Author	CanadianOptionTrader
Upvotes	93
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Date	November 30, 2017 4:29 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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