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BainsBane

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5. False assumption

Reply to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #3)

Thu Apr 24, 2014, 08:25 PM

Apr 2014

If the problem was mostly due to discrimination by the boss, the wage gap wouldn't also present among business-owning women making less than business-owning men.

No, you assume women are immune from sexism. That is clearly not the case. The assumption is absurd.

There was a movement in the 1970s called comparable worth that sought to establish greater equity in government jobs. That was brought to an end by the reactionary climate of the 1980s.

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Will the gender wage gap ever close? [View all] davidn3600 Apr 2014 OP

The only reason women have seemed to close the gap Warpy Apr 2014 #1

No oldhippie Apr 2014 #2

We certainly could fix it. lumberjack_jeff Apr 2014 #3

False assumption BainsBane Apr 2014 #5

Sure. Igel Apr 2014 #6

Sweden is NOT the same as the US. BainsBane Apr 2014 #4

I think the point is that traditional ideas to combat this are failing davidn3600 Apr 2014 #9

I disagree that it's failed laundry_queen Apr 2014 #11

We are talking about averages though... davidn3600 Apr 2014 #12

Not as long as MRA's keep crying oppression... Ohio Joe Apr 2014 #7

Two lines of attack BainsBane Apr 2014 #8

A few points on this: laundry_queen Apr 2014 #10