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Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by em3rgent0rdr on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @04:52PM (#14914532)
1. "If women were 25% cheaper than men"

That is not what the article said.

2. "women in general are more agreeable than men"

???

3. "women tend to care about people while men care about things"

???

Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by oldboyFX on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:18PM (#14914756)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/

"For example, women are often found to be more agreeable than men (Feingold, 1994; Costa et al., 2001). This means that women, on average, are more nurturing, tender-minded, and altruistic more often and to a greater extent than men."

Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by em3rgent0rdr on Thursday August 03, 2017 @05:58PM (#14924317)
I won't speak to the veracity of that...I have no scientific knowledge on that. I wonder if part of the solution involves women understanding that if you want to look out for your self interest, then you don't need to be agreeable all the time.
Re:When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap a... by marksc on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @05:41PM (#14914928)
For #3 see 'Gender Differences in Personality and Interests: When, Where, and Why?'[1] The difference between being thing-oriented and people-oriented is larger than the things we think of as obvious gender differences like physical aggressiveness or attitudes toward casual sex.

"For the people–things dimension of interests, the results in Table 1 are clear, strong, and unambiguous. Men tend to be much more thing-oriented and much less people-oriented than women (mean d = 1.18, a ‘very large’ difference, according to Hyde (2005) verbal designations"

[1] http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x