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Book recommendation: Invisible Women - a very well sourced book on bias (specifically gender bias)
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<blockquote data-quote="yrp" data-source="post: 611851" data-attributes="member: 3901"><p>To give you a more serious answer, the gender pay gap isn't always in that women are getting paid less for doing the exact same job (although sometimes that is true - see Google gender data for even an ultra liberal company's stats) but that women are sometimes pushed into industries or types of jobs where pay is lower. </p><p></p><p>You too would benefit greatly from reading the perspectives here. One example the author lays out is that most part time workers (of course she provides precise statistics but I don't remember them now) are women vs men. Usually because women have to take the burden of child and elder care and perform a great majority of unpaid labour. Part time jobs on average pay way lower and thus we see a pay gap. Policies like extensive maternity leave could help with this and though this costs more intthe short term, she lays out studies that show it would help the economy in the long term. </p><p></p><p>Of course, there's plenty of other examples and reasons as to why women choose lower paying jobs. I'd encourage you to go out and do some research on this yourself and report back here</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yrp, post: 611851, member: 3901"] To give you a more serious answer, the gender pay gap isn't always in that women are getting paid less for doing the exact same job (although sometimes that is true - see Google gender data for even an ultra liberal company's stats) but that women are sometimes pushed into industries or types of jobs where pay is lower. You too would benefit greatly from reading the perspectives here. One example the author lays out is that most part time workers (of course she provides precise statistics but I don't remember them now) are women vs men. Usually because women have to take the burden of child and elder care and perform a great majority of unpaid labour. Part time jobs on average pay way lower and thus we see a pay gap. Policies like extensive maternity leave could help with this and though this costs more intthe short term, she lays out studies that show it would help the economy in the long term. Of course, there's plenty of other examples and reasons as to why women choose lower paying jobs. I'd encourage you to go out and do some research on this yourself and report back here [/QUOTE]
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