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Loki45 -> RE: Talking Women (2/13/2010 7:17:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: thornhappy
You mean the researcher being interviewed was misleading people?
It's very possible. In my psych class, we've been talking about sample and researcher bias. It's not inconceivable that the researcher on a very slanted radio network has some amount of bias which prejudiced his results.
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ORIGINAL: thornhappy
In the right company, my work pays the same for women or men. I've never denied that.
In the majority of companies, I'd imagine. The trouble with the assertion that women are paid less than men is that unless you can get the guy who hired the two people in question to admit willingly that he deliberately paid the woman less on purpose, it's awefully hard to prove.
What a company pays a certain position is very subjective and influenced by many factors. Perhaps the man was hire when the company was doing very well and the woman was not. Who knows. Perhaps he exuded confidence in his interview whereas she seemed overly green, yet capable. In my mom's office, she was making one amount, with 30 years of experience, and another *woman* came into her office with not even half that experience making more money. Sometimes shit happens. Sometimes the boss is a jerk or there are other factors involved.
The fact is, the pay gap is a perception that is very difficult to prove out right. As I've said, since I joined the work force in the mid-90's, I've held *no* job where I was paid more than women or vice versa. Every position I've held from grocery clerk, to the military, to various temp jobs has paid the same amount no matter what was between my legs.
I can't even imagine what field it would be that pays the woman less. Though, in my honest opinion, if there were such a field, I could certainly understand it. A conversation as recently as last night with my boss leads me to think that women can often be unreliable. We had some bad weather here the past two days. All the men fought through it and showed up for work. Nearly all the women stayed home. Couple that with things like maternity leave where the rest of the office will inevitably have to pick up slack for someone who wants their career and their family too and if those people are making the same amount, you do a disservice to the ones left holding the bag in the office. Why should they make the same amount while doing double the work when their coworker is absent? But that's another debate entirely.
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