sapphi_snake said:
HappySqurriel said:
Actually, there is significant bias in academia that is widely accepted even within academia; they typicall dismiss it as "Competent conservatives choose the private sector" and completely negate the fact that in the highly subjective liberal arts fields you have to accept and promote the professors worldview to get good grades. There is a large number of conservative academics who claim that they have to stay "in the closet" about their political views for fear of reprecussions.
Years ago I was in university and taking a sociology course and I had a professor who worked in both Women's Studies and Sociology. One of my friends was at the top of the class until our mid-term paper where he foolishly accepted my dare to choose the topic about pay-equity and argue that the disparity in pay between women and men was mostly caused by the choices women and men make. His paper was far better written than mine, his argument was better researched and supported and yet I received a B+ while he received an F. He protested with the dean who remarked his paper and gave him an A. Every paper he handed in after that also received a D or an F, and he repeatedly visited the dean to get his paper remarked where he would get an A.
There are countless simple minded academics who will punish students that don't puppet their worldview, and (quite regularly) their worldview is a socialist/communist worldview.
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What choices do women make that lead to them getting payed less? Are these decisions influenced by society's expectations on what women should do (having kids etc.)?
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It has been demonstrated that women work fewer hours per week and have less experience than men at a similar age because they tend to take on a greater share of the work raising children and taking care of the home. Women also tend to favor educational paths with less clear career paths and/or choose a career that emphasizes helping people over earning money (education, child-care, nursing, social work, etc.). On top of this women tend to work for the same company for longer (people tend to get raises when they switch companies) and are less likely to ask for a raise or a promotion. Finally, women tend to prioritize job-security over earning potential when choosing the companies they work for more-so than men do.
There are other factors as well, and some researchers claim that when all factors that can be proven are accounted for women earn 92% of what men do and much of the remaining gap might be the result of more difficult to prove factors (women being less likely to promote themselves).
Whether these choices are driven by pressure from society or not doesn't matter, if the lower pay is a consequence of their choices you can't argue that the lower pay is in itself discriminatory.
