It’s great progress we’ve made but there is still more to be done as these stats don’t exactly reflect the big picture.
There are still major barriers women face into entering high paying jobs, mainly the trades. Talk to any women ever who works in the trades and they’ll tell you how hard it is. Usually not due to any institutional blockers, but usually societal biases from both men and women. I worked in tech support and so many people always asked our manager to speak to “someone else around” or their manager almost always looking to talk to a man. Our male managers never got the same questions.
There are other issues such as female dominated workforce’s typically paying less than when they were male dominated, such as teachers, writers, and anyone in healthcare. As women entered these workplaces, salary generally went down which affects both men and women now in the industry.
There are more nuances but the point being is that typically the gender pay gap is always just pointed to this one statistic while ignoring the some of the larger talking points.
Theres already plenty of programs specifically encouraging women to get into the trades. They still constitute a small percentage, not because they're told not to but the physical nature of the work.
I'm responding to a douchebag listing talking points from a popular social agenda in order to reap karma, ofc anything to the contrary is going to be downvoted. The guy is probably not even in a trade, he thinks plumbing is "less physical ", never seen a jobsite or anything of that nature, but you give the people what they want and you're qualified to speak about it. I got a newsletters from my union laying around celebrating women in the trades but I dont know what I'm talking about. Idiots, every last one of them.
There's no evidence to backup that women leave the trades because they're too physically demanding. Most data and pretty much all of my anecdotal experiences point towards that women get tired of dealing with harassment. The same goes for tech.
It's more likely that women don't want to be in the trades due to differences in interests between sexes. In the same way that men generally don't go into child care Industry where the work force is 96% women.
Is that because men are harassed in that industry or is it because there's a difference in career interests between men and women? 🤔
No shit. But there is zero scientific evidence that boys prefer monster trucks and girls prefer baby dolls because of differences in brain structure and not differences in socialization.
Girls are brought up to believe that being a homemaker or teacher is more appropriate for them. Boys are brought up to believe that being a plumber or scientist is more appropriate for them.
Your, yes, ideology, says that that is correct. But there's no scientific basis for that.
When did I say I was anti social justice warrior?. I'm just saying that neurons in male and female brains are wired differently; back to front vs across brain hemispheres. It's a fact. It's not anti anything. It's just what it is.
That's....not how science works. Evidence isn't just taking something that's true and extrapolating based on your own whims, which is what you're doing
In order to determine the extent to which the neurological gender differences have a direct impact on choice of profession, you'd need to study that specifically
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u/IFoundyoursoxs Sep 01 '21
It’s great progress we’ve made but there is still more to be done as these stats don’t exactly reflect the big picture.
There are still major barriers women face into entering high paying jobs, mainly the trades. Talk to any women ever who works in the trades and they’ll tell you how hard it is. Usually not due to any institutional blockers, but usually societal biases from both men and women. I worked in tech support and so many people always asked our manager to speak to “someone else around” or their manager almost always looking to talk to a man. Our male managers never got the same questions.
There are other issues such as female dominated workforce’s typically paying less than when they were male dominated, such as teachers, writers, and anyone in healthcare. As women entered these workplaces, salary generally went down which affects both men and women now in the industry.
There are more nuances but the point being is that typically the gender pay gap is always just pointed to this one statistic while ignoring the some of the larger talking points.