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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by adrianN on Monday July 17, 2017 @07:28AM (#14787501)
This is a nice argument that I actually believe myself, but you could counter it by saying that, due to sexism, even when women and men do exactly the same work, the males' result are valued more. Hiring managers don't have to be perfectly rational, they could be (unconsciously) sexist.
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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by thehardsphere on Monday July 17, 2017 @08:18AM (#14787788)
You could counter with that, but you'd be redefining what we're talking about away from whether or not similar men and women are paid the same to something far more nebulous and difficult to measure.

And rationality of any one particular hiring manager isn't going to make a big difference; they still need to compete with every other hiring manager in the labor market and must offer something competitive accordingly.

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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by s73ver on Monday July 17, 2017 @12:33PM (#14790052)
No, they'd be redefining it to something more analogous to the real world.
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Re:Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get... by thehardsphere on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:24PM (#14790589)
We were discussing salary differences between men and women who do the same work and have made the same choices. Salaries exist in "the real world," so you're going to have to try harder to change the topic to whatever it is you want to talk about instead.
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