U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by giantg2 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:07PM (#25662507)

The genuine sources have issues like bias or sloppy investigating, that leads to outright lies too. For years the media was representing the gender wage gap as being a man and women in the same job with all attributes other than gender being equal (even Obama said this during a state of the union). That clearly isn't what the BLS study says (difference in occupations, in part, drive the wage gap on an aggregate level).

https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlynborysenko/2020/03/31/grea...

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by bitwize on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:39PM (#25662937)

Yes, all other things being equal including level of experience, a woman makes about 98% as a man.

But how many women are afforded the opportunities to attain the job and life experience it takes to make as much as a man at the same job?

Once again -- stop thinking equality and start thinking equity.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by giantg2 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:50PM (#25663075)

Considering women obtain degrees at a higher rate than men, I'd say there's just as much opportunity.

If you are alluding to family constraints, having a family is a choice. I'm a man with a family and I have seen many opportunities disappear as a result of my decision to have a family.

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by bitwize on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:16AM (#25700540)

The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs last month. All of them -- 100% -- were held by women.

Women simply do not have the same opportunities that men do in this country.

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