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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by sizzle on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:27PM (#19307618)
I'm genuinely curious how we might factor in the differences between genders in occupation selection and that women and men may innately value different types of work e.g. women are more empathic than men and dominate the nursing field etc
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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by pas on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @02:39AM (#19308840)
By keeping an open mind. It's ok if 90% of women want to just play with kids all day, and 90% of men want to play with guns all day. But telling, suggesting, stopping the other 10% from trying the other side is the problem.

It's inherently hard. After all, statistically 9 out of 10 will match your expectations, but you should embrace the outliers, help them understand, that they're perfectly okay, and capable of doing whatever they think they want, be it guns, C++, teacher, nurse, etc.

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