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Oct 27, 2010

boom boom boom posted:

If you don't mind me asking, why didn't you report your employer to the government? Or sue them?

It's not illegal to pay women less than men unless you can prove that the pay gap is specifically because of gender, rather than because they're "not assertive enough" or "don't seem as committed to their job" or something.

Phyzzle posted:

In academia, they attempted to prove it with an experiment involving equally qualified male and female applicants in STEM fields:

http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/study-women-favored-for-stem-tenure-track-jobs/

"Contrary to prevailing assumptions, men and women faculty members [hiring decision-makers] from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males with matching lifestyles (single, married, divorced)"

So, they ended up proving the opposite. . .

Except for the bit at the bottom where they note that another study done a year or two before with somewhat different methodology had totally opposite results! Also, that study you link only describes likelihood of being hired, not wages upon hire.

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