Jill Abramson's Solution For Workplace "Wage Inequality": Cut Men's Salaries

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2014-11-06 05:35

Article here. Excerpt:

'Fact: Men are paid more than women on average in all 50 states. How do we fix it? Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, has a fairly simple suggestion.

Following Abramson's discussion at the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) on Nov. 1, Poynter reporter Kelly McBride asked Abramson how managers could address pay inequality while operating with a limited budget. Her suggestion is as simple as it is novel:

“You bring the guys down to give a little more to the girls.”

Candid, yet comprehensive. But could anyone ever go for such a "brusque" solution?

Abramson explained to McBride that she had implemented this strategy as executive editor of The New York Times: “I did that at the Times. No one’s happy to get a cut, but too bad."
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Perhaps the most simple solution is the best solution: pay men less, pay women more, until we're even. AsJessica Valenti writes at The Guardian: "Addressing gender imbalance directly: imagine that! No hemming and hawing about how the problem started or what women need to do to fix it -- management fixed it, as they should have."

Employers, it's your turn to lean in.'

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A male reporter spends 200 of 365 days on the road, on planes, on or near battlefields, remote towns, etc. He does this for 10 years and is 15 years out of college. He now gets paid, say, $160,000/yr. His organizational title is simply "reporter".

A female reporter with 5 years on staff and who is 4 years out of college and who covers only local stories makes $90,000/yr. (Remember, she lives in NY City.) Her org'l title is also "reporter".

Jill A. would, I suppose, think that since both hold the same title, they ought to be paid the same. She lowers the male reporter's salary to $125,000/yr. and raises the female's to the same. After all, they're doing the "same" job, so to avoid blowing the budget, she decides to even up the salaries w/out changing the gross amount she pays for the two of them.

Yeah, I'd quit, too. Aside from being a loose canon flipper-outer-on-the-staff-a-la-Rahm-Emanuel (who, despite being male, was sacked as Obama's Chief of Staff for similar traits as Jill A's), she decided to, what, "reward" successful reporters by cutting their salaries?

The woman is clearly a managerial genius! Clearly, she's been a VICTIM of GENDER DISCRIMINATION!

Oy veh.

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Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2014-11-07 06:06