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Re:Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect by ugqtq on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:53AM (#20181449)
Do men and women have the same level of education and have they chosen the same career paths in average? If they haven't then that 20 % is meaningless. As far as I know men and women can choose to get the degrees that they want and can choose to pursue the careers that they want. If they haven't chosen to do so what do they expect?

Ah I see you edited. Yes that was exactly my point. If they expect to get the same money for nursing that you can get for designing rockets then that's basically Communism.

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Re:Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect by nickik on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:06AM (#20181495)
More woman at my school in switzerland had the education to go into IT and yet we had 3-4 woman in 3 classes. That has zero to do with access to education and everything with personal choice.

One can argue its a society problem, but its not an education problem. Woman are overrepresented and get more education in general.

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Re:Swiss women strike for more money, time and respect by mlang23 on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:14AM (#20181516)
I experienced pretty much the same thing during the time I went to school. I specialized in IT during school already. We had about 2/3 women and 1/3 man. AFAIK, none of the women actually started to work in IT. Two or three man did.
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