Arguments have moved from "equal pay for equal work" and are moving toward pay rises for FEMALE dominated work. Equity NOT equality.

MerurinTheGreat · 2018-12-22T10:31:48+00:00

Doesn't the market dictate the salaries?

Me_ADC_Me_SMASH · 2018-12-22T11:56:28+00:00

Why not, then men will just go to the highest paying jobs anyway and the imbalance will remain. But now you can actually be a teacher or nurse if you really want to

RampagingAardvark · 2018-12-22T13:29:17+00:00

I wouldn't mind a pay raise, as a dude in the medical field... But if you increase wages in female dominated fields, men will just flock there and out compete women for the top spots. It won't fix the problem, they're trying to balance against male evolutionary disposition. Women will never earn as much, on average, as men do, unless you are unreasonably tyrannical towards men.

I mean, just look at Lindsay Shepard's video she made recently about wanting kids. Even as a woman who is educated and well reasoned, she realizes there is never a good time to interrupt your professional life with having a kid, and that she will be best off having a kid before 28. I turned 28 this year, and I definitely don't feel ready for a kid. I'm working my ass off to go back to school and move forward in my career. But women have to seriously consider the fact that the longer they wait beyond 28, the more problems they will have trying to procreate.

So they're in a crappy position, where they can't just use their early adulthood (20s and 30s) to advance their career and shore up their finances before having a kid. They have to have one as soon as they reasonably can, and that means their career is going to suffer compared to a man who doesn't have to do this to procreate. It's even been shown that men are more likely to experience success at work after they have a child, because they are driven to be even more successful a provider.

I don't think every woman has to have children, but I think a lot of them will regret putting their career first when they're having miscarriages and ivf treatment in their late thirties.

revenueperadventure · 2018-12-22T12:38:53+00:00

This is a logical progression of the gender pay gap myth argument -> implement wage controls at the sector level to correct the free market’s discrimination. The current gender pay gap argument is easily countered by asking, “Why don’t firms exclusively hire women and enjoy a discount on their labor costs, creating a massive competitive advantage?”

2018-12-22T12:17:16+00:00

Supremacy, not equity.

Galaxine · 2018-12-22T14:22:47+00:00

I'm going in to the teaching field. I'm also a woman. I don't expect to make 6 figures a year. The school districts around me haven't raised starting wages since 2001 and haven't given cost of living wages since 2007.

32,500 is what teachers start at locally. No supplies allowance, though you can write some of that off on taxes. We have a reasonably low cost of living but that is terrible for a bachelor's degree.

31,500 is what a 15 dollar minimum wage gets you.

Teachers all over the country are fighting stagnant wages. Especially since most states require continuing education. Getting a masters degree gets me 4,500 more a year.

Teaching is a calling. You have to want to do it and love learning and learning. But having nearly 2 decades of pay stagnation is bad. I know several teachers who bartend to make ends meet.

DWSchultz · 2018-12-22T12:22:30+00:00

Communist style pay over merit based pay? I wonder how well that would work.

If only we had some historical examples available for us to study.

Unfortunately my indigenous-history studies and women’s-economics-studies didn’t look outside my own genitals/skin color.

/s

bradtwo · 2018-12-22T17:42:51+00:00

They are arguing for equal opportunity but asking for equality of outcome (socialism).

Always pay attention to that and point it out.

In case you’re unaware of the difference.

Equal opportunity already exists. This mean they (women in this case) have the same abilities to go to school for engineering for example and get jobs in that respective fields.

Equality of outcome would be if they went to school for dance theory but state that they deserve the same pay those who went into engineering. Then declaring that since they aren’t making as much financially as those who went to school for engineering it is somehow sexist against them.

dukunt · 2018-12-22T18:27:31+00:00

So we start paying early childhood education works the same as a mine worker. Seems fair /s

TheBookOfSeil · 2018-12-22T15:56:23+00:00

Feminists obviously want equality of outcome. Women already have equal opportunity. They’re using “feminism” as a political platform to get what they want even when they don’t deserve it. This should be obvious already.

lostapwbm · 2018-12-22T14:51:23+00:00

The goal stays the same (women win, men lose).

Only the tactics change.

ggihhpy · 2018-12-22T15:29:21+00:00

Women choose to go into lower paying fields. Tell them to stop doing this.

MrJonesWildRide · 2018-12-22T16:26:00+00:00

Indivuals should worry about their own wages.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2018-12-22T16:33:25+00:00

So there's an even smaller incentive for women to go into STEM fields.

imbecile · 2018-12-22T16:20:29+00:00

Well, I'm all for nurses and teachers getting more money. And as sad as it is, making it about a gender thing looks more promising nowadays than making it about a labor/class thing.

Which of course was the whole point of starting feminism in the first place.

perplexedm · 2018-12-22T15:42:13+00:00

Seems people get paid to ply stupidity, there seems to be a good market for it.

Title	Arguments have moved from "equal pay for equal work" and are moving toward pay rises for FEMALE dominated work. Equity NOT equality.
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Date	December 22, 2018 9:34 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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