What Men Do To Outearn Women

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2012-05-29 19:50

Article here. Excerpt:

'In that, not much has changed between Peggy Olson’s 1967 job search and our own lateral moves today.

Simply put, we continue to accept unequal conditions in the workplace serving lesser clients for lower pay, fewer promotional opportunities and far less respect than our work product deserves.

Peggy, who worked her way up from secretary to copywriter with the mentorship and sponsorship of the fatally handsome and deeply flawed Don Draper, learned a few things in last night’s show that men in the workplace have known since they first gathered together to raid the next village.'

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Victoria Pynchon seems a little too resentful of males in her Forbes article "What men do to outearn women." In her piece and in her responses to readers' comments, she sounds much like the standard feminist who sees women as perpetual victims and men (mostly white men) as privileged oppressors. She ignores or dismisses the fact that bias also works against males in the job world, and, of course, she ignores all the conditions that result in men working longer hours, having to be away from their families, suffering far greater occupational death and serious injury, etc. Feminists and their friends will like her female victimology, but those who are more realistic will see her blinkered perspective for what it is.

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Submitted by gregory on Thu, 2012-05-31 02:53