Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track (2014)

Re:Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM t... by cup-of-tea on Monday January 22, 2018 @01:17PM (#16206533)

> The median salary for women working full-time is about 80 percent of men’s.

I don't need to read any further because I've read it all before. Women tend do different jobs to men. Easier, safer, less responsibility and less stress. That's not a wage gap, it's just a different choice of career. Which makes the next statement downright offensive:

> That gap, put in other terms, means women are working for free 10 weeks a year.

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Re:Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM t... by crowleysimon on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @01:26AM (#16211467)

I suggest you go back and read further on since "Women choose lower-paying jobs" is the very first claim that they refute

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Re:Experiments reveal faculty preference for women on STEM t... by cup-of-tea on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @07:07AM (#16212908)

But that doesn't take into account responsibility or actual job done at all. Organisations only have a limited number of job titles and at higher levels people are not as expendable. They do their own job.

The only thing that does seem to explain a gap---but a much smaller gap---is that men are more likely to negotiate their salaries.

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