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02-19-2014, 04:24 PM
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02-19-2014, 04:30 PM
I wonder how they can blame the patriarchy for this one. Maybe it conditions women to think of women as lesser beings? Anyone has a better idea?
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02-19-2014, 04:38 PM
I suspect the reason why women make less is because they feel like an ego if they ask for anything.
The Feminine principle says there should be no egotism (self-interest) in the world. She's not even really there as a seperate identity. She just blends in with the rest of the world. Thus to ask for or demand a raise goes against their grain and they would instantly stick out as an ego.
It's why women want men to read their minds. If they were to tell us what they "want" it would make her become a self-interested person (ego), self-councious of herself. It's why they nibble on a cracker before hunger sets in, or why they rush for a blanket before they get chilled. It's all an effort to avoid becoming aware of themselves. It's also why women love to have the door held open for them, so they don't have to "act" in the world as an ego and thus become aware of themselves
The masculine has no qualms with egotism. It's completely ok to compete with and win at the expense of the other, to establish yourself as a seperate individual (identity).
Also part of it is that women look at the work world as a Soap Opera where business is secondary to relationships and developing a sewing circle. They are less likely to job hop and leave their friends behind for more money, where as we wouldn't hesitate a bit.
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02-19-2014, 05:33 PM
The feminine doesn't believe anything should be earned, it should just be given. Like the love of the Mother, the child needs do nothing, it only needs to exist.
The masculine on the other hand demands everything be earned and the Father gives his child love when they have earned it through hard work, making the right decisions, obeying, and carrying his ideals and principals forward in life.
Manifested in economics, Socialism/Comminism is feminine and Capitialism is masculine.
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02-20-2014, 10:27 AM
It doesn't matter how much you earn or don't earn. What matters is how much you keep after taxes and expenses.
Men might or might not earn more than women. It doesn't matter. What matters is, at the end of the day, men turn over all their money to women and women tuck it in the bank and laugh their asses off.
Women in the US and most other countries, own the majority of assets.
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02-20-2014, 10:36 AM
They would say that the patriarchy is so powerful that women are even brainwashed to think of themselves as less valuable than men, thus the lower self-pay.
This just fodder for the other side.
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02-20-2014, 11:45 AM
This is a classic case of a study where there are so many possible confounds that it's nearly impossible to know if the headline result means anything or not.
As correctly noted in the article that the OP links to,
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As a caveat: These data are very far from ideal. A Babson professor who worked on the survey notes that women may have founded businesses in sectors with lower revenues than men, for instance
This is just one obvious confound that could easily explain some, all, or none of the effect.
Such numbers should always be taken with pinches of salt because the confounds here are so massive as to render the result very nearly meaningless.
Analyzing these sorts of claims will be the bread and butter of my
stats and numeracy thread once it really gets going.
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