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Gender Equality and Work

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Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P »

I hate to say it, but there's something more fundamental going on. Take a look at open source for example - Very low barrier to entry, no one is getting paid, and there's no interview. I ran a project that had over 100 contributors, and of the ~20 that I got to know personally, there were 2 women, only one was cis. Either young girls are still be pushed away from the "hustle" culture, or different genders tend to care about different things.

An even more obvious example might be Uber drivers. Anyone can take Uber as a side income, yet there's so few women who do. How can you explain this phenomenon by anything other than "the way girls are raised" and "biological differences"?

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by scarmig »

As always, the OECD is leaving out other massive gaps. For instance, the working hour gap: even if you limit yourself to the class of full time workers, men work more hours than do women. There's the work satisfaction gap: women work in jobs that offer them more work satisfaction than men. There's the commute gap: men spend more time in their commutes per week than women do. There's the retirement gap: full time women retire years earlier than full time men. There's the workplace risk gap: men are far more likely to work in jobs that cause them injury or death. There's the on-call gap: men tend to work more inconvenient hours and do work outside of normal working hours.

I'd love for all these gaps to be reduced, but the situation is less "patriarchy stealing money out of women's pockets and undermining equal pay for equal work" and more "men face strong gendered pressures to sacrifice well-being in exchange for more income." There is definitely social sexism being surfaced by the wage gap statistic, but it's against men, not women.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by mschempp »

As a father, I really can't understand how every article about this topic talks about as if fathers and mothers are just interchangeable. We are not.

Mothers carry their child for ~9 months, they give birth to that child. The bond between a mother and her freshly born child is bigger than that of the father.

Of course fathers are very important too, and yes fathers should spend more Time with their children in general.

But it's Just crazy to ask mothers to get back to work as soon as possible. Many mothers want to Work part Time, because they want to spend more time with their children. The issue is, that care work is not paid or valued nearly the same as work for money.

Also if you're feeding your young child like you are supposed to, the father simply can't feed the child, because we don't give milk.

Nearly all articles about this topic care only for how to get women back to Work instead of what's best for society and for families.

If that would be the Focus, we would talk way more about how to integrate children into the work Life and less on how to grow GDP.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

#14

Post by packetlost »

scarmig wrote: post #12

As always, the OECD is leaving out other massive gaps. For instance, the working hour gap: even if you limit yourself to the class of full time workers, men work more hours than do women. There's the work satisfaction gap: women work in jobs that offer them more work satisfaction than men. There's the commute gap: men spend more time in their commutes per week than women do. There's the retirement gap: full time wome…

It's honesty sad that it took like 20 years of bullshit to get to the point where we can freely discuss this stuff without being shouted out of the room for being sexist or some other -ist/-ism. The pursuit of equity is one of the single most toxic things to happen to modern societies.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by mschempp »

scarmig wrote: post #12

As always, the OECD is leaving out other massive gaps. For instance, the working hour gap: even if you limit yourself to the class of full time workers, men work more hours than do women. There's the work satisfaction gap: women work in jobs that offer them more work satisfaction than men. There's the commute gap: men spend more time in their commutes per week than women do. There's the retirement gap: full time wome…

"There is definitely social sexism being surfaced by the wage gap statistic, but it's against men, not women."

I would say against both genders.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by lysium »

logicchains wrote: post #10
logicchains wrote: post #7

We'd only expect to see wage equality if women had exactly the same job preferences as men, which empirically is absolutely not the case.

To whoever downvoted this, I'd be interested to see your sources showing that women do in fact have the same job preferences as men. Because every study I've seen shows that their career preferences differ. Or do you genuinely not understand that if women on average have a preferences for fields that pay less, they'll earn less on average?

I think the argument is the other way around: fields that women prefer pay less, ie. the field pays less because women prefer it.

I don’t share that argument, I just wanted to point it out.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by scarmig »

mschempp wrote: post #15
scarmig wrote: post #12

As always, the OECD is leaving out other massive gaps. For instance, the working hour gap: even if you limit yourself to the class of full time workers, men work more hours than do women. There's the work satisfaction gap: women work in jobs that offer them more work satisfaction than men. There's the commute gap: men spend more time in their commutes per week than women do. There's the retirement gap: full time wome…

"There is definitely social sexism being surfaced by the wage gap statistic, but it's against men, not women." I would say against both genders.

It is more complicated than I let on and not as simple as class X is victimized. However, it's frustrating that this pushback happens only when a random internet comment is oversimplifying in the men have it worse direction and never when a massive institution is oversimplifying in the women have it worse direction.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by watwut »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #11

I hate to say it, but there's something more fundamental going on. Take a look at open source for example - Very low barrier to entry, no one is getting paid, and there's no interview. I ran a project that had over 100 contributors, and of the ~20 that I got to know personally, there were 2 women, only one was cis. Either young girls are still be pushed away from the "hustle" culture, or different genders tend to car…

How is "free volunteer work" a proxy for "hustler culture"?

Also, Uber driving is not side income, it is main income low pay job for overwhelming majority of the drivers.

Re: Gender Equality and Work

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Post by UncleMeat »

scarmig wrote: post #12

As always, the OECD is leaving out other massive gaps. For instance, the working hour gap: even if you limit yourself to the class of full time workers, men work more hours than do women. There's the work satisfaction gap: women work in jobs that offer them more work satisfaction than men. There's the commute gap: men spend more time in their commutes per week than women do. There's the retirement gap: full time wome…

This would make more sense if it wasn't related to children. Women aren't just working fewer hours to relax. They work fewer hours because society demands that they do a whole extra job of raising children.
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