torok said:
The average pay is biased because men are more numerous in professions from the STEMM areas while womans are the majority in professions in the humans sector. The difference in salaries is related to the job choice. Studies comparing pays for men and women in the same profession show a much more equalitary pay grade. I myself never had a situation in any company where a women was being paid less than a men in an equal position. Also keep in mind that women sometimes pause their careers for one or two years to have kids and that results in an impact in their payment when they return. We should start to study why women aren't chosing the STEMM areas as much as men, to determine if it is a social imposition or if they simply prefer more other areas. The current studies basically say that an engineer get more cash than an historian and that won't change. We need to attack the issue from the correct point of view. About fat people, I'm a bit overweight and I don't think skinny people are perceived as healthier. They ARE healthier (unless they are anorexic). I can say that people who smoke are less healthy, why can't I say the same about obese people? We already have a lot of criticism towards excessive skinny people, but I don't want people to start saying that being fat is a normal and healthy choice when it isn't. A 300 pounds guy is as sick as an anorexic person. |
We've talked about this ad naseum. Just look back through the posts for my responses.
