Is there a wage gap?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Is there a wage gap?

silence_kit: Jul 14, 2011; by the sex ghost

ReadyToHuman posted:

Amusingly, when a job is regarded as a job women go for, it's valued less.

Software engineering was valued far less when it was mostly done by women and men were predominantly in hardware, for one example.

Computer programming in the age of the ENIAC was very different from computer programming now. Conflating them is naive or dishonest. The work that the women computer programmers did during WWII was pretty menial and was stuff like opening/closing switches.

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silence_kit: Jul 14, 2011; by the sex ghost

botany wrote off the following interview because the interviewee wasn't self-righteous enough but actually it is pretty good and explains a lot of the subtle reasons for the gap, which people have been recently been talking about in the thread.

Fansy posted:

Short answer: it's complicated.

http://freakonomics.com/2016/01/07/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

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