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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by mikeash on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:08PM (#6046432)
There's no room for doubt, really. It does suggest that. It does not prove, so you can certainly doubt the conclusion, of course.

There really doesn't seem to be any alternative besides these three:

- Women are not underpaid or more efficient.

- There is not a noticeable number of unethical people seeking to get rich.

- People are getting rich by hiring lots of women and outcompeting everybody else who prefers men.

The last two don't look true to me, which suggests that the first one is true. I certainly could be wrong about the assumptions or conclusion, but it does suggest that.

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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by antimagic on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:36PM (#6046655)
You missed an option: There are "unethical people" that would discriminate for women to get rich, but for whom other prejudices against women are too strong, so they don't...

I'm not saying that this is the case, just pointing out that you missed options that would allow the hypothesised discrimination to exist.

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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by dyno12345 on Monday July 15, 2013 @01:37PM (#6047144)
it would be that All unethical people that would discriminate have other prejudices, which is implausible
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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by rxp on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:33PM (#6046627)
You are oversimplifying by assuming that the supply of applicants for a given job is gender-neutral. I think it's generally accepted that one of the causes of the wage gap is that women are pushed toward stereotypically "female" careers, and those usually pay less.
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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by dylandrop on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:17PM (#6046491)
These "unethical people seeking to get rich" could also outsource all jobs to third world countries and get their work done pennies on the dollar -- yet a lot of them don't. It doesn't look good for your company when you take advantage of people in plain sight.
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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by xyzzy123 on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:35PM (#6046643)
> yet a lot of them don't

But many of them did...

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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by mikeash on Monday July 15, 2013 @03:44PM (#6048089)
The "third-world countries" equivalent would be: if third-world labor were cost effective, then people would be hiring labor in third-world countries and crushing the competition with their greater productivity per dollar, and getting rich in the process.

Which is exactly what happened over the past 30 or so years.

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Re:When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at ... by p0ckets on Monday July 15, 2013 @12:38PM (#6046671)
Other alternatives: - Most women do not like working in all-female workplaces - Competition from all-female workplaces run by ethical people
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