Re:Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries
by facepalm on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:27PM
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"Women tend to find themselves funneled into specific career paths"
Why the passive - couldn't they actively be choosing specific career paths?
"This is in large part because care for family members(children and elderly parents usually) is more often foisted upon women in our society than on men."
Again, why the "foisted"? Especially for children it doesn't make sense: if it is such an unpleasant task, why not simply choose not to have children? Care for parents might end up in women's hands because they already made the choices for more flexible time (and less income) earlier on.
Instead of "foisted", it seems possible that women simply more often get the option to choose (because they were the ones who were pregnant), and men don't.
Why the passive - couldn't they actively be choosing specific career paths?
"This is in large part because care for family members(children and elderly parents usually) is more often foisted upon women in our society than on men."
Again, why the "foisted"? Especially for children it doesn't make sense: if it is such an unpleasant task, why not simply choose not to have children? Care for parents might end up in women's hands because they already made the choices for more flexible time (and less income) earlier on.
Instead of "foisted", it seems possible that women simply more often get the option to choose (because they were the ones who were pregnant), and men don't.