They did a study using Uber data which removes any human influence and found that women still had a wage gap. What conclusion can we draw from that? I have no idea.
Netfilx’s Explain did a really good short documentary on wage gaps and the causes. It turns out a huge cause is things like pregnancy, weddings, and taking care of family. I’m not gonna write out the whole script but it was really informative on the issues and ways they’ve been solved in other countries
Oh, the Uber study concluded that there was a wage gap, but that the women working for Uber were not disadvantaged compared to men. They drew this conclusion based on factors that were dependent on how the employees operated. Basically they said that men outperformed women in Uber and that is why there was a wage gap in Uber.
web dot stanford dot edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf
Uber isn’t exactly a full time job. I mean it can be and it is for a lot of people but it’s not stable and there’s no real guarantee that there’s always going to be work. Making it not the best basis for the talk about pay gaps. Most people talk about a pay gap in a general sense that includes all the factors of life therefore making it so complicated. Yeah, we could remove all of society’s standards, human emotions, and outlying circumstances and dumb it down to saying “women don’t put in effort”. But that’s ignoring the fact that most of the time if dad’s had a heart attack the daughter has to rush in and help, or if a couple decides to have kids the wife has to take off for having the kid, or a thousand other little ways life influences workers.
Uber isn’t a traditionally full time job but that isn’t a factor in the analysis. The wage gap exists; I don’t think anyone denies it. The real question is what is causing it.
I love these posts, you know, inferring that all women have stupid college majors. Also makes the assumption that no women actually have decent jobs. This person's joke will surely fix everything.
In their defense I got a master in paleontology which did turn out 100% useless, but on the other hand we were only 2 girls in my class so boys can have useless majors too.
It does not anywhere state that all women have stupid college majors. There are men that are feminist studies majors. You’re the one taking the words they said and inferring something about it. Don’t blame the person for the inference that you made.
I think what a lot of people don't consider is that jobs that are incredibly nessecary but traditionally female (teaching, nursing, etc) are all underpaid.
Archetypal need and benefit to society, but you probably have to be a decent human being to see that. It's going to be hard to grasp when you define a persons value by any kind of number.
Nice argument calling me names. Still the point is that teachers and nurses are paid less than what their value to society should earn them and the assumptîon is that this is because these are jobs mainly done by women, answering your initial "question".
Learn to read, the name obviously wasn't the argument.
So are male teachers and nurses underpaid as a result of the professions being primarily filled by women?
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Yes, obviously.What a stupid question. Why else do wages for these type of jobs rise where ever the number of men working there is rising?
web dot stanford dot edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf
So are male teachers and nurses underpaid as a result of the professions being primarily filled by women?