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Gender Pay Gap

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rewdiazepam
I am a big defender of human rights, whether it be regarding color, race, or gender.

Awhile back we had a discussion about women's pay vs men's pay, and I asserted that women generally earn less than men not only in the United States but around the world. I still think they do and it is just deplorable that women have been treated so badly on a global scale throughout the years.

Here is a good article regarding the pay gap among genders-----

http://tinyurl.com/n2pmwrn

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Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
I have no doubt it will take a long time for women to catch up... There's still so many places that women are fighting to even have a voice... It's still thought that women are the nurses and men are the doctors... Thanks rew....xo
patti22
patti22
Lots more male nurse's out there. And quite a few male doctors.

The medical director ( a doctor) where I work is female and she used to be a nurse. She states that hands down she made more per hour as a nurse than she is now as a doctor.....just saying.... She also says that it was harder to make it through nursing school.....
SleepyWalrus
SleepyWalrus
I have no doubt that there are plenty of employers out there who are sexist and pay wages according to their sexist beliefs. However, after all the studies/reports/graphs/charts/debates/etc I've seen and read on this subject over the years I now question how accurate the arguments presented by either side actually are. These days it just feels like both sides of the issue are cherry picking statistics and skewing research results in their own favor.

Both sides need to shut up, sit down together, pick a single fair/unbiased method of determining what the pay gap is AND the REASONS for it existing, then use only that method for studying the issue.
Calebb
Calebb
Agree about the selective stat-gathering. I'm glad Sleepy-W you said that; had not previously thot much on it. . (( S. ))

OTOH I'm having a hard time imagining how a one *difference* factor could be found. For one thing would it cover all occupations. ? . (Someplace in the. 80%'s ?). My thinking (as a novice) : it's to be a case-by-case (or class actions, each) basis.

I wonder if any genuine penalties exist for pay discrimination. Note "discrimination." . hehe . . Others here would know better than I. But if I'm right, some law(s) need changing.

--- Caleb, named for one of Moses' spies . :)
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