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Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men

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Re: Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men

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If woman really are getting paid less for the same work as men wouldn't employers do the arbitrage of hiring women instead of men?

https://www.aol.com/gen-z-gender-pay-gap-050000387.html?gucc...

We all noticed it was just impoverished and uneducated young women blaming their incompetency on the wage gap and patriarchal influences, while really all other women in their age range had closed it to the extent that they are even making up for the women that drag the wages down

Its pretty impressive overall, but extremely funny watching some women be left behind and not even know it

Re: Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men

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If woman really are getting paid less for the same work as men wouldn't employers do the arbitrage of hiring women instead of men?

In general, women get paid the same as men, within the error of measurement, and have for many years. The trope of women making less than men comes from an apples to oranges comparison. Women choose less lucrative careers, leave the workforce more often to care for children, and care more about work-life balance. The result is that on average across the workforce, women make less. But if you look at an individual career track and control for hours worked/overtime, years of experience, etc. it’s generally quite even.

In fact, there’s a recent trend of young women making more than their male counterparts, as per the link in this thread.

Re: Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.aol.com/gen-z-gender-pay-gap-050000387.html?gucc...

We all noticed it was just impoverished and uneducated young women blaming their incompetency on the wage gap and patriarchal influences, while really all other women in their age range had closed it to the extent that they are even making up for the women that drag the wages down Its pretty impressive overall, but extremely funny watching some women be left behind and not even know it

"We all noticed" except the people gathering actual data of course. https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor... shows disparities in skilled trades: in fact _more_ disparity in skilled trades. For example 15% gap for developers.

But I'm glad you "noticed" something different, problem solved then.

> extremely funny

Regardless of the reality of the gender pay gap, this is a disgusting attitude.

Re: Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men

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Kind of useless if not normalized by proportion of genders in each industry, no?

Yes, though the article is about this. Forgivable given the paywall though.

TLDR is women are more employed because healthcare continues to see growth in jobs and employment women; also, the software engineering job apocalypse is probably structural not AI, and already bouncing back.

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