Buzzfeed Quiz Alert: How Much Of A Feminist Are You?

[WolfpackN64]

Moonlighter said:

WolfpackN64 said:

The point is that jobs mostly filled in by women (the care sector for example) gets paid less then sectors mostly filled in by men (engineering for example). Women who do work in engineering jobs generally do not get as high up as their male counterparts (even more disproportionally as the amount of women working in these sectors). Female CEO's are often not paid as much as their male counterparts (but since a company usually has one CEO at a time, it isn't as easy to make a comparison, but a good recent example is AMD where Rory Read got paid more then the current CEO Lisa Su).

Since women still take up maternal and household work (more so then men) in this day and age, a larger percentage of women work part time. Part time and flexible work more often pays less then a fulltime (usually less per hour as well).

I can give you a source, but it's in Dutch, so I don't know if you'll be able to read it.

http://pvda.be/sites/default/files/documents/Program/PVDA/goleft13gender_0.pdf

It's from the study service of the Workers Party of Belgium (note that not everything they talk about is applicable in the USA)

Again, you aren't comparing the same jobs. That's also another problem with the wage gap: It compares jobs that aren't essentially the same. More engineers are needed. You also have to keep in mind men join the most jobs where death rates are sky high. 90% workplace fatalities are men. If a job pays less, move to another field that pays more. Simple as that. And no, a woman doesn't get paid less as an engineer because she's a woman, it's because she puts less work, less hours, and is most likely part time. These jobs men mostly dominate aren't easy. I'd certainly rather work in heath care than as a petroleum engineer, construction worker, or a miner. Guarantee you that you'll barely see any females there (and I don't blame them for not considering those jobs). If all jobs were required to pay the same just because women choose lower paying jobs, I'm pretty sure most men would want to go for the same jobs that most women go for. After all, it pays the same, isn't as grueling, and there's a less chance of getting killed. If they did that, who would do the important jobs to keep the cities and homes running? Oh, that's right: they are paid more for these jobs because of the demand of needed workers.

But it doesn't matter if it are the same jobs or not. The matter of fact is that the wage gap still exists due to the way the job market is structured and that isn't the womens fault.