Quote: (06-22-2018 02:19 PM)MrLemon Wrote:
I ran across one of those "discussions" on LinkedIn, about "Gender Pay Gap" and was very happy to see that the men commenting were taking no prisoners whatsoever.
When you mess with a man's career, whether you are female or not, you are going to get punched in the nose. Men don't fuck around with that.
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Once again the media is pushing the myth of "the pay gap". Indoctrination at work, "if I keep saying something is real, maybe people will believe it".
The "Pay Gap" myth was debunked DECADES ago when it was found out that women CHAMPION low paying jobs like childcare specialists and psychologists. Now, these jobs aren't "bad" but many of them take alot of time in college and have very little pay. When many of the higher paying jobs like those in technology. In fact EVEN inside their own fields, like medical care, women tend to choose jobs like Pediatric Care Provide (lower paying job) instead of Heart Surgeon (higher paying job).
On top of that women tend to work fewer hours AND take more time off... now these may good for good or bad reasons, but to demand to get paid for the time you don't really work is frivolous to say the least.
Al factors aside the REAL pay gap (this is to say, a female worker compared to a male worker, within the same exact job), is so narrow, it's not even worth mentioning.
This is the key right there.
In my over 20 years of various jobs. One thing that was common among across all of them was female often missed worked way more compared to men.
I used to work in a law firm a while ago. Just document services and mail room.
The manager suffered from migraines constantly. It got so bad that she went 3 months without ever working a solid monday-friday week. Some weeks she would only work for 2 days.
For example, Come in Monday feel bad, then go home around lunch time. Not come in Tuesday or Wednesday. Show up on Thursday and stay for the full day but not come in Friday because her head was hurting. This wasn't the exception. This was common, we kept on getting questions if she had quit or if is shes still sick.
The worst part of everything was, she did the payroll and she made sure she always got paid for 10 days of work (2 weeks).