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Gounads posted:You have to pick your goals. Your realistic solution is to eliminate the major contributing factor and then wonder aloud why women aren't "choosing" to work more hours or enter into more lucrative fields. It's a great way to blame women for the problem and dismiss the severity of the pay gap, but it's actually a pretty lovely way of solving anything.
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Zephyrine posted:Supposedly the gap is closer to 2%. Is it 2004?
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MGTen posted:It's a great way to blame women for the problem and dismiss the severity of the pay gap, but it's actually a pretty lovely way of solving anything. Surely my problem was that over the course of 9 months, repeatedly asking for a raise and title promotion to work I was already doing, I just wasn't asking THE RIGHT WAY. This magical way whereby I'm not being a timid pushover but also not angering everyone by being "pushy" and rude
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 21:39 |
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Gounads posted:You have to pick your goals. Golly, if only we could address more than one factor. But nope, we can either deal with only getting the same hourly wage or we have to tackle literally every single disparity all at once. It just really sucks that those are the only two options available and nothing else.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 21:54 |
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MGTen posted:Why would you adjust for that? A big reason for the wage gap is because women are frequently encouraged to sacrifice time at work for time with their families when men aren't asked to make the same sacrifices. We demand that women split their interest between the public and private sphere, but aren't supposed to acknowledge this as a driving factor behind pay disparities? I'm a guy. Let's say I have a woman coworker who has exactly the same skill set and experience level as I do. She works 30 hours a week at the same job. I work 36 hours a week. I'm working 20% more hours so I'm doing more. It would be perfectly reasonable if I made 20% more money as the only unequal thing is that I am working more. I am selling more of my time than she is. However if you take the time factor out all you can see is that two people of equal experience and skill have unequal pay. If you take the time factor out you'll start hearing people saying "why does he make more money? The work place must be sexist" but in this theoretical situation I do, in fact, deserve more because I work more. Of course in said situation she may very well want more hours but is not being given them. One of the biggest issues with the pay gap argument is that people only ever look at yearly salaries which absolutely don't tell the whole story. The other major issue is that it was exceedingly recently that women were expected to major in "husband finding" if they went to college so in a lot of fields women with 30 or 40 years experience are rare or just plain don't exist. It takes time for that sort of thing to correct itself and it will over time. We also need to be careful about not overcorrecting it which, from what I've heard, is happening in a few industries. Even so if you look at wages on an hourly level the gap is actually much smaller than advertised. One of the big reasons that men on yearly average make more is that men just plain work more. It's likely that men are being given more hours but the other side of it is that me on average are more likely to take jobs that have more hours, require more travel, or that you can't clock out and walk away from. Women are far more likely to choose jobs that don't affect their family lives. Why that happens is of course societal and sexism in the work place still isn't dead.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm a guy. Let's say I have a woman coworker who has exactly the same skill set and experience level as I do. She works 30 hours a week at the same job. I work 36 hours a week. I'm working 20% more hours so I'm doing more. It would be perfectly reasonable if I made 20% more money as the only unequal thing is that I am working more. I am selling more of my time than she is. However if you take the time factor out all you can see is that two people of equal experience and skill have unequal pay. If you take the time factor out you'll start hearing people saying "why does he make more money? The work place must be sexist" but in this theoretical situation I do, in fact, deserve more because I work more. ToxicSlurpee posted:Even so if you look at wages on an hourly level the gap is actually much smaller than advertised. One of the big reasons that men on yearly average make more is that men just plain work more. It's likely that men are being given more hours but the other side of it is that me on average are more likely to take jobs that have more hours, require more travel, or that you can't clock out and walk away from. Women are far more likely to choose jobs that don't affect their family lives. Why that happens is of course societal and sexism in the work place still isn't dead. Or it's because salaries are generally set by men and that they are more likely to value the labour of a man more than that of a woman. Also that men tend to do better in salary negotiations (because a man asking for more money is showing assertiveness while a woman is being needy).
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PUGGERNAUT posted:Is it 2004? Scholarly research from the man who brought you "prove you love your children by beating them."
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I'm a guy. Let's say I have a woman coworker who has exactly the same skill set and experience level as I do. She works 30 hours a week at the same job. I work 36 hours a week. I'm working 20% more hours so I'm doing more. It would be perfectly reasonable if I made 20% more money as the only unequal thing is that I am working more. I am selling more of my time than she is. However if you take the time factor out all you can see is that two people of equal experience and skill have unequal pay. If you take the time factor out you'll start hearing people saying "why does he make more money? The work place must be sexist" but in this theoretical situation I do, in fact, deserve more because I work more. That's a lot of mental effort to go into just to assure yourself that you don't benefit directly from sexism. I mean, this is pretty simple stuff. You're dismissing a major reason for the pay gap and then claiming that it's not as bad as people claim. You don't deserve to be paid more, because the reason why you work more hours is because you are a man. Like, straight up. I'm sorry that you have to find out this way, but you aren't succeeding on merit. You're succeeding 'cause there's an entire system of sexist bullshit propping you up and dragging your theoretical coworker down. Women frequently find their hours cut if they choose to have children. They are refused management positions and acceptance into grad school programs over fears that they might get pregnant. They are barred from dangerous work that pays higher wages because it's assumed that they can't accomplish it. This is important context of the gender wage gap and trying to remove it from the conversation because "eh what are you gonna do" is a fat load of bullshit. Also, handwringing about "oh my gosh what if we overcompensate and MEN become the ones being paid less on average" is just pathetic. Trying to fix the problem might have an adverse effect on dudes? Better not do anything, I guess!
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I stopped reading halfway through. Is he implying that there isn't all kinds of hosed up favoritism and bullshit over hours? If so, that's bullshit and he's a bullshitter.
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# ? Nov 28, 2015 00:03 |
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No, he is, but women need to just stop complaining so much because the problem will just solve itself. So sit down and shut up, ladies, we'll get around to solving this problem just as soon as you stop screeching like harpies about it!
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MGTen posted:Like, straight up. I'm sorry that you have to find out this way, but you aren't succeeding on merit. You're succeeding 'cause there's an entire system of sexist bullshit propping you up and dragging your theoretical coworker down. quote:Women frequently find their hours cut if they choose to have children. They are refused management positions and acceptance into grad school programs over fears that they might get pregnant. They are barred from dangerous work that pays higher wages because it's assumed that they can't accomplish it. This is important context of the gender wage gap and trying to remove it from the conversation because "eh what are you gonna do" is a fat load of bullshit. Or make up hypotheticals about some dudebro who works 36 hours to my 30 because clearly facetime is what make you worth more to a white collar business. If I had a dollar for every time I showed some clueless middle manager how to hit "sort" in excel...
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Zephyrine posted:
In what loving would would literally anyone say 'oh yea, Maddox, solid source'?
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Who What Now posted:No, he is, but women need to just stop complaining so much because the problem will just solve itself. So sit down and shut up, ladies, we'll get around to solving this problem just as soon as you stop screeching like harpies about it! It's not the bosses who refuse to listen to women and belittle their problems who need to change. Nah, this is obviously the fault of the womenfolk
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Tatum Girlparts posted:In what loving would would literally anyone say 'oh yea, Maddox, solid source'? Maddox posted:
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# ? Nov 28, 2015 02:44 |
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I don't know, sometimes Maddox is a solid source of comedy.
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# ? Nov 28, 2015 02:49 |
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Even in nursing where ~90% of the workforce is women, men are paid more. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/nursing-pay-gap-women-paid-less_n_6931846.html This study was huge and accounted for experience and specialties.
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ErichZahn posted:I stopped reading halfway through. Is he implying that there isn't all kinds of hosed up favoritism and bullshit over hours? If so, that's bullshit and he's a bullshitter. Oddly enough I actually touched on that and do, in fact, acknowledge that sexism exists. I for one don't benefit as much as, say, you would expect a white guy to because my race is second-class white person at best, I deal with the stigma attached to mental illness, and I came from a poor background. I don't have it the worst as far as privilege goes but trust me I'm not upper middle class white guy privileged either. Sometimes the gaps are caused by sexism, sometimes they aren't. The entire wage gap is not caused by sexism and sexism alone. I don't really see why that's such a controversial statement to make. I'm not denying sexism. I'm a computer science major. Trust me, I've seen a lot of it heaped on the women trying to study programming and it's not cool when it happens. ToxicSlurpee fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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Next couple of weeks are going to be real bad, folks.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Oddly enough I actually touched on that and do, in fact, acknowledge that sexism exists. I for one don't benefit as much as, say, you would expect a white guy to because my race is second-class white person at best, I deal with the stigma attached to mental illness, and I came from a poor background. I don't have it the worst as far as privilege goes but trust me I'm not upper middle class white guy privileged either.
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One of my FREE MARKET! friends shared this lovely bit from that bastion of reasonableness, mises.org: https://mises.org/library/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise quote:[Every year at Thanksgiving-time I resurrect a column written by a fellow teacher, Kent Dillon, about the real reason we celebrate this holiday. It is a story no longer told in the textbooks because it is thoroughly unPC, and undermines the idea that government is the solver of all problems. We were teachers, as well as part of the crew, at The Flint School, a private, academic boarding school aboard two large sailing ships, and we used the world as a campus. Kent wrote this for the students’ parents 45 years ago, so they would know what their children were learning and experiencing. Googling led me to this: http://crooksandliars.com/heather/right-wing-revises-history-socialist-pilgr ...which led me to the slightly less inflammatory http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21zernike.html?_r=0 EDIT: Also, this particular guy fancies himself a Christian, so I'm really tempted to drop this on him: quote:Acts 4:32–35: 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. 33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35 And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. DarkHorse fucked around with this message at 04:55 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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The problem with that quote is that he'll just turn around and say the Bible wants you to give willingly to charities/churches, and it's biblical proof that giving money to churches instead of the government really does fix everything.
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# ? Nov 28, 2015 05:04 |
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But then are we a Christian nation, or aren't we?
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Shouldn't have even engaged that rear end in a top hat in his pivot. Did he not just refer to the deaths of those in the latest shootings, which included police, as late term abortions? How the gently caress can he defend that statement? Not with any of his objections to abortion in general.
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DarkHorse posted:But then are we a Christian nation, or aren't we? What was the Colbert quote about that? It was from his show; I think he basically said "if we are a Christian nation then we have to admit we just don't feel like being charitable like we're supposed to." The same people I've met that have screamed the loudest about how America is a Christian nation have also invariably been the least charitable.
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Bast Relief posted:Shouldn't have even engaged that rear end in a top hat in his pivot. Did he not just refer to the deaths of those in the latest shootings, which included police, as late term abortions? How the gently caress can he defend that statement? Not with any of his objections to abortion in general. Oh I stopped engaging this guy a while ago, that's some other random person that
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ToxicSlurpee posted:What was the Colbert quote about that? It was from his show; I think he basically said "if we are a Christian nation then we have to admit we just don't feel like being charitable like we're supposed to." The same people I've met that have screamed the loudest about how America is a Christian nation have also invariably been the least charitable.
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Yup, that's exactly it. Thank you.
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Where's the outpouring of white male christian conservatives condemning this attack? After all, if Twitter is anything to go by, there are WMCCons literally cheering at this terrorist attack.
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Anyone seen a "we can't accept Syrians if some may be terrorists? When do we start deporting anti-choicers" yet?
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Do transmen earn more than transwomen for the same work?
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Bloodnose posted:Do transmen earn more than transwomen for the same work? Not sure, but I remember some stories about transmen being shocked at how much more respect they get in the workplace as a man than as a woman.
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And transfemale photographer finding out that, despite many years of experience, her new clients post-transition seem to assume she didn't know anything about photography.
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PUGGERNAUT posted:Not sure, but I remember some stories about transmen being shocked at how much more respect they get in the workplace as a man than as a woman. There's, I think more than one, story about transmen working in research who deliver a paper or big conference only to be told "wow, your research is so much better than your sisters' "
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Oh man is it the weekend already? No rest for the EXTREMELY PISSED OFF RIGHT WINGERS (II) RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS THAT ARE TOTALLY NOT JERKIN IT SECTION Oh that's nice how they're preparing to welcome the Syrian refugees and show them their collection Yes, please stay a 1000 yards from me Responsible gun owner, definitely I have. Are you planning an assault on a planned parenthood? Neither did several million refugees. What happened to the M&Ms, guys? Go home uncle sam, you're drunk That skull looks too happy about this ok now that's funny so close I'm not really sure what's going on here, or why we'd need guns to solve it. (Is that a water buffalo?) Democracy in the streets, Constitutional Republic in the sheets Go gently caress yourself Racism over, everyone! Pro tip: don't use macros that compare your group to poo poo Look at that man with a designer spaniel. Why is he asking for handouts when he has a luxury dog? I'll bet he has a refrigerator and a cell phone too. Just kids being kids on a soundstage More schools full of white kids. Honestly, did any of these flag humpers actually like saying the pledge as a kid? Every child I know hated it Did someone's head explode? Politics and religion That escalated quickly Offended are we? Atheists you're responsible for the racist poo poo you're doing now Spank em all let god sort it out Bottle opener. I'm so bored of the "obama is bad" ones that I left most of them out. Just know that they post like a dozen a day Gitmo is a cushy resort, also we want to send the traitor we hate there. Misunderstanding Full Metal Jacket theater And one of those times was during a hostage situation in Lebanon. Infidel Single Payer Now All lives I'm an ADULT. I'm not a PART of your SYStem. Maaaan Pretend I posted the cut foreign aid macro next to this Very direct Now let me tell you about how great it is that Trump wants to close mosques and put muslims on a register bigot Marines are not Celebrities whaaaat Wait who are we supposed to agree with here? Defenestration fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Nov 28, 2015 |
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Defenestration posted:
Hey now, this is legit doctrine. Handguns are really only good for infrequent, low-intensity close-quarter combat while a rifle is much more appropriate for pitched infantry battles. This is why officers, pilots, and rear echelon troops are typically issued handguns.
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Defenestration posted:
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I do find it concerning that they're all white.
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Aside from a pistol for target shooting, a rifle for hunting, and maybe a shotgun - do civillians need anything more than that? Shooting can be a fun hobby if done safely, and well regulated hunting is good for the enviroment, but do they believe that a bunch of untrained, unorganised rabble with guns are going to make a difference if Obama goes "lol I'm evil now arrest whitey" or Red Dawn happens? The answer is yes
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