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pokoko on 31 October 2019
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Chrkeller said:

For me, both sides misrepresent the gender gap. One side overestimates the issue, the other underestimates.

@pokoko, excellent point(s). Agreed.  Though I would argue the inability to do a 1:1 comparison was driven by women not being viewed as capable of certain jobs.  I'm deep in the STEM fields.  In the last 14 years, the field has changed drastically for the better.  We are making improvements.  But we shouldn't pretend that 20-30 years ago women were encouraged to stay out of the STEM.    

We're going to have to agree to disagree about this because I don't ever envision the same number of women as men applying to heavy industrial positions that are dangerous and physically demanding.  I just don't.  

I used to work in the paper industry so I know a lot of loggers.  Personally, there is no way I'd work that job.  It's brutal.  You're basically telling me that it's a male dominated profession only because of bias but I just don't buy that.

Pay gap comparisons should be based on like professions.  That's the only way it's going to give us useful information.  Otherwise, it's just a misleading number used for propaganda purposes.  If an industry is unfairly excluding women from employment then that should be a separate issue with its own spotlight.  Mixing all that together just muddies the water.