Cost-Saving Measure: Fire the Men, Promote the Women

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2010-04-20 16:31

Article here. Excerpt:

'There appears to be a new, novel way to cut IT personnel costs: Get rid of the men and keep the women, because you know you can get away with paying them less.

According to Computerworld’s “Salary Survey 2010,” the perennial gender wage gap has remained firmly in place in the past year. For example, female application development managers made 7 percent less than their male counterparts, and female CIOs made a staggering 16 percent less.

It seems hardly coincidental that a study by recruiting firm Sheila Greco Associates, cited in the Computerworld report, found that the percentage of female CIOs and executive vice presidents of technology rose to 16.4 percent in 2009, compared to 12 percent in 2007. When women are clearly equally capable and you can pay them 16 percent less, why wouldn’t you pad the upper echelons with as many women as availability will allow?

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Been in IT most of my career, and never had a bonus. Maybe that's why I have never been fired. :) But anyway, I see this a bit less as a gender discrimination issue and more as a can-I-get-someone-for-less issue. If you want $100k + a $40k bonus as a Director of IT and someone else will take just the $100k and not insist on a bonus too (or just not ask for one), then why not take the second person, all other things being equal?

The fundamental problem here is the same problem with the mythical wage gap claim. The truth in both cases is that employers are driven by how much they have to pay someone vs. what they get. They well and truly don't care about gender (at least not anymore). They care only about the bottom line. If they don't, they won't stay in business, especially not these days. Maybe some IT managers, male or not, just need to stop insisting on bonuses and accept the stark truth: You can't get what you used to get from being an IT director anymore. The halcyon days of the turn of the century are behind us, probably for the rest of our careers. Live, and be glad you have work.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2010-04-20 17:12

There will be less productivity, more complains, less extra hours worked.

People sow what they seed. And if they seed political correct insanity, the consecuences will be very clear.

I can only laugh for this fools.

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Submitted by Hulkmania on Tue, 2010-04-20 17:21

manonthestreet

You may call a man or a woman a programmer or software engineer but that does not mean they can both do the job equally as well. Computing is an area which I have some experience where I can honestly say I have never come across a good woman where as I have seen many good men. Technical support and keeping the system running is very important and it quickly becomes obvious if a person can not do it. There is just no place to hide when some software or system fails and you need it fixed. Men who can do this will of course be paid more than women who can't. I wonder if MR will find my words too strong.

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Submitted by trotter on Tue, 2010-04-20 18:27

Quote: "Women tend to keep quiet"

LOL! Maybe in the workplace, but someone's going to hear their complaints! If anyone complains, it's going to be wymen.

I've been in IT, too, (newspaper) and never received a bonus. Again, wymen are complaining about not receiving the same bonuses the few men at the top receive. Guess what? The majority of men do not receive bonuses, too! Just like the majority of men work the death jobs and dirty jobs. But, you won't hear wymen complaining about not receiving their equal share of that.

MAJ

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Submitted by digital_dreamer on Tue, 2010-04-20 21:31

...nobody in power, left or right, cares that most degrees are going to women, this way they can lower the boom on all professions.

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Submitted by MichaelClaymore on Wed, 2010-04-21 00:16