Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries

Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by stvswn on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:01PM (#11219584)

First, you'd be creating a penalty for hiring people who are likely to have children. As a father of young and yet unborn children, I wouldn't appreciate it.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by ZoeZoeBee on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:36PM (#11219834)

If we're talking about Silicon Valley and the tech field in general, there already is a penalty for being a father to young children and/or expecting them. A good deal of tech jobs are well over 40 hours a week, sometimes work is all there is time for. That is not an environment conducive to being an active and involved father.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by RodericDay on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:03PM (#11219598)

Currently there's a penalty for hiring women based on that exact same reasoning.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by chongli on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:12PM (#11219652)

Right, but that penalty is deeply ingrained into our capitalist society. You can't solve it with just a quick bandaid fix.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by theseatoms on Thursday March 03, 2016 @03:46PM (#11219916)

Can it be fixed? In the end, pay is linked to productivity. The only fix I see is increased use of paternity leave.

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Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries by chongli on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:12PM (#11220072)

Productivity on paternity leave is zero, since you're not working, so why expect pay to be anything but zero?

"Paternity leave" is an attempt to create a non-capitalist bubble inside of a capitalist world. It's like building a colony on Mars; not something you can do trivially.

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