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There's multiple issues, basically: - Controlling for the same job position, men are paid more than women - The highest paying jobs are predominantly male (and women tend to quit these jobs faster than men) - The education tracks required to get into these high paying jobs are again predominantly male Each of these issues are related and add up to having major consequences for the wage gap.
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boom boom boom posted:In discussions of the wage gap I've seen previously, the people who brought up women working lower wage jobs thing did it to argue against the wage gap. "Of course a nurse is going to be paid less than a doctor", they would say. I'm surprised to see that used as an argument for the existence of a wage gap. It's related to the active vs passive discrimination you see in other fields (racism etc). Someone going "I'm going to pay you less for the same work because you're a woman" is clearly in the wrong. Someone justifying women transferring out of jobs because of their "own personal choice" is a lot less clear, though it achieves the same effect.
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Jan 30, 2016 04:09
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It is important to emphasize that the women already in the STEM/high paying fields are still much more likely to switch out of those fields than men, and that's primarily due to the work culture. So like a bunch of companies complain about the "pipeline" where they aren't getting enough female applicants, but even if that were fixed there's still major issues in the work environment that cause women to leave.
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Jan 30, 2016 17:47
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Main Paineframe posted: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. Oh, and these are tenure track positions at a university, not an average company.
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