Can a movement similar to fascism emerge in the US?

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HappySqurriel said:

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.

It depends on which POV you're interpreting the information from. Some disciplines (including some areas of Sociology, like Social psychology), take the relationship between the individual and society/dominant institutions, and how they contribute to the formation of the individual and influence life decisions to be important.