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It's pretty simple: Men and women in the same job should get the same pay. The House has passed the #PaycheckFairnessAct to help make equal pay a reality. It's 2019! Let's get it done.
Chart: @monachalabi
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They reckon it will take at least 200 years before there is real pay equality..
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,604 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Huge eye roll!!!
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Igel
(35,274 posts)And we use traditional pivots we condemn fairly often.
We use what's useful, not always what's principled.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)All are at the highend of pay scales. Many get their pre-college schooling in their home countries and come here sponsored by their government or their upperclass families for college or come over on visas, with graduate degrees.
On edit:
The schools in those countries take in the economically elite and only the proven elite of the elite come here. Still, in those countries poor people have a pretty bleak future.
Joe941
(2,848 posts)Racism and education inequality are the top reasons.
CousinIT
(9,225 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Tons of those pink, freshly scented items cost women 25% more than the same product that is marketed for men like deodorant and "other" things like dry cleaning.
FakeNoose
(32,596 posts)Not always, but oftentimes the cost/responsibility of childcare falls on "Mom" not "Dad."
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)We chose to be born with a functioning uterus (didn't you know..we had a "choice" ) and will be punished for it as long as there are men.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thanks for posting Soph!
zentrum
(9,865 posts)PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)...for at least planting a flag with the Paycheck Fairness Act showing which party is and which party is NOT (the Rethugs, of course) for equality.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,104 posts)In two hundred years, we will have destroyed the oceans and human life as we know it will be eradicated.
Farmer-Rick
(10,140 posts)Why can't we just all be equal?
Kaleva
(36,259 posts)Amishman
(5,554 posts)Asian men are one of the most highly educated demographic and work some of the most hours per week (white men average more hours per week than any other demographic.)
FakeNoose
(32,596 posts)The Asian men & women are more likely to get degrees in STEM and computer science, and they're highly recruited and compensated. Caucasians in those fields are also well-paid, so why aren't more Caucasians choosing those fields?
JI7
(89,240 posts)and they tend to have much more and higher education levels. including continuing education while working.