'The Masculinity Police Perpetuates Gender Pay Gap'

Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2012-07-18 01:52

Article here. Excerpt:

'The masculinity police push women away from financial equality by engaging in systematic scorn for all that is perceived to be feminine and all this is supported by feminists. Women's efforts to level the economic playing field are discounted and dismissed. To maintain the perceived superiority of masculinity over femininity, the masculinity police work tirelessly to keep the substantial wage gap in place.

It is a sad day every day that women earn less money than men. Women earn just 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in the same position. The pay gap is even worse for women of color, with African American women earning 67.7 cents and Latinas earning 58.7 cents for every dollar earned by men doing the same work. Unprecedented numbers of women are the sole or primary breadwinners in their homes. Equal pay means that mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters will be better off financially, offering more long-term financial stability for their fathers, sons, husbands, and brothers. When women earn better wages, more money is spent in the economy. Every single American man, woman, and child has a vested interest in paycheck equality. Pay equity is good news for all of us.'

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The wage gap has been proven to be the result of men tending to choose more lucrative positions, while women tend to choose more flexible ones. Men tend to make up an overwhelming majority of those who work dangerous jobs, as well. The figures stated in the article are actually the average income for men and women. It does not take similar conditions or similar work into account at all. The last thing we need is the government making it harder for employers to pay employees what they're worth, because they fear a lawsuit from a disgruntled female employee.

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Submitted by xtrnl on Wed, 2012-07-18 08:39

There's no evidence that it's for the same work or same position. The wage gap is simply an aggregate.

Even if it's in the same general field, such as medicine, women are still more likely to go into nursing than become a doctor. And women who becomes doctors are more likely to become a pediatrician than a brain surgeon, though the latter pays more. And female doctors tend to work fewer hours than male doctors.

In truth, we could in all fairness reverse all the whining about discrimination and claim women just aren't getting the job done. They don't do what it takes to make the money. Men, on the other hand, do whatever it takes.

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Submitted by el cid on Wed, 2012-07-18 13:10

I think perhaps what is actually going on here is not that women's work is being devalued by society, but that men's work is devalued by women.

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Submitted by dungone on Wed, 2012-07-18 21:03