RE: Why so many "anti-feminists" in the atheist community?
January 2, 2015 at 3:11 pm
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 3:12 pm by Dystopia.)
Quote:Pretty sure Wolf challenged the claim that women make less than their peers for the same work, while accepting that women make less than men - overall.I probably expressed myself wrongly - I said the pay/wage gap is not only earning less for the same job, but the overall earnings of male or females and questioning what leads to that - If it is, like I proposed - Either biological features that lead women to less well paid (on average) jobs or are social norms and stereotypes (like the ones saying that nursing is a women's job while engineering is a man's job) responsible for that... And by all means, what do you think of this?
In my country, it's not likely that a female earns less than a male peer for the same job, given that it's punishable by law for an employer to pay an inferior wage for the same job, and if I'm not mistaken, it can get you a really heavy fine. However, I've read news about females making less than males in the US while exercising the same function - I actually don't have much evidence of this and I'm not worried about it - What worries me more about the pay gap are the reasons that lead women and men to be more likely to pursue certain careers.
Quote:It sounds like a law that could do that, sure. It's also a slight departure from capitalism as-I-know-it in that here, you can hire an awesome janitor for $20/hr and a shitty one for $8/hr (or less - if we're talking about bending the law). We aren't forced to pay the same rate for all of our janitors (personally, I wouldn't want to be).~
That depends entirely on the job and such a law is not absolute, there are many exceptions. Labour laws are by definition limitations and departures from capitalism, have always been
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