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© 2018 AFPGender equality at work more than 200 years off: WEF
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Matt Hartwell
The pay gap is a natural outcome of male/female inclinations. Its not a "problem".
The figures are distorted because men work in fields orientated towards profit and women work in fields oriented towards caring, as a general rule. Much of that caring work is paid for by government, ie taxpayers and the profit motive does not exist to the same degree as it does in say sales, tech, engineering, construction, mining etc etc.
Naturally where the profit motive exists, the rewards are going to be greater and this is why the overall gap exists and will continue to exist unless men are fired on mass which modern day feminists would love.
Men at the top of organizations? No surprise. The top 100 U.S companies are by nature oriented towards profit and so potential leaders are drawn from what is going to be largely male dominated field.
Women are interested in people, men are interesting in things. Naturally more men are going to filter to STEM. And the problem is? You cannot shoehorn women into professions they are not interested in. Why distort natural inclinations? What is the point? Remove any barriers that do exist, of which there are none in the developed world and let women choose to do what they want. It, by in large, won't be STEM fields, outside of perhaps medicine. Given the aging population, who do you think is going to take care of the elderly. Ill give you a clue, it won't be men...and in that there are huge job opportunities for women, by they won't pay as much as an engineer unless you raise taxes through the roof.
We have quotas now increasingly in political representation. A stupid idea, but there it is. Women outnumber men in education by a large margin, so I assume this doesn't apply to the developed world.
Back to the STEM argument.
There is no doubt automation impacts men more. That is straight up nonsense.
Andrew Crisp
Same here the so called gender pay gap has been debunked so many times - the real reason is women chose lower income professions.
Raw Beer
Agree with above comments.
One thing that renders the gender pay gap extra deceptive is when they wrongly add the "for equal work". There is no pay gap when comparing equal work.
Michael G
So? Men are under-represented in nursing and education. Men and women make different career choices. Countries that have the most freedom of choice for both sexes regarding career-choice find that even MORE men choose STEM fields and MORE women choose nursing and child-care.
JeffLee
A typical 40 something male has considerably more work experience than a typical 40 something female.
At my client's workplace where I go regularly, everyone is a number registered at HR, the difference being that about half the women routinely arrive late and leave early due to childhood duties. A guy could technically do the same, but they don't, perhaps because they effectively aren't allowed to.
KittyGeorge
You had better interview Japanese girls at the corner of Japan. Most of them are satisfied with current situation and don't want higher position in firms.