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Re:The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood by btilly on Sunday May 14, 2017 @01:58AM (#14334456)
Men are overrepresented on both ends. See https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10670 for some of the data.

However that doesn't explain why in many industries for many jobs, apparently equivalent men and women are paid differently.

Re:The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood by mst on Sunday May 14, 2017 @02:21AM (#14334514)
An interesting theory there is that it's primarily a combination of (a) women aren't socialised to negotiate as hard (b) everybody is socialised to regard a woman negotiating hard more negatively than a man doing so.

Since both of these things seem to me to suck anyway I figure we might as well fix them and see what happens. Of course, exactly how 'fix them' works is a tricky question.

Re:The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood by afpx on Sunday May 14, 2017 @02:03AM (#14334470)
Good point. But, what if it still comes down to risk taking? (not assuming a biological component)
Re:The Gender Pay Gap Is Largely Because of Motherhood by sinxoveretothex on Sunday May 14, 2017 @02:49AM (#14334583)
Interesting link. It's disappointing that the author doesn't link to some form of source however (to the skeptic to this hypothesis, the claims are to be taken on the author's word).