Gender Equality and Work
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Gender Equality and Work
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#2idk how the hackernews community feels about this stuff but..
this is the usual oecd “gender equality is good for gdp” framing, which is fine as far as it goes, but it still treats care work like some side issue instead of the foundation of the whole labor market. if you actually want equality, stop acting like childcare, eldercare, parental leave, and wage suppression are just personal choices. they’re baked into the system.
and things like pay transparency or getting more women into leadership aren’t enough if the system still rewards overwork, instability, and unpaid labor at home. the real fix would mean socializing care, shortening the workweek, and not tying basic survival to having a job.
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#3idk how the hackernews community feels about this stuff but.. this is the usual oecd “gender equality is good for gdp” framing, which is fine as far as it goes, but it still treats care work like some side issue instead of the foundation of the whole labor market. if you actually want equality, stop acting like childcare, eldercare, parental leave, and wage suppression are just personal choices. they’re baked into th…
Or, trade your services for what people will pay.
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#4The difference in level of concern between the gender pay gap and the gender death gap at work is stark.
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#5Not just employment rates, women are also taxed for a “pink” tax on products they need…all while it now requires a working household to afford to live.
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#6idk how the hackernews community feels about this stuff but.. this is the usual oecd “gender equality is good for gdp” framing, which is fine as far as it goes, but it still treats care work like some side issue instead of the foundation of the whole labor market. if you actually want equality, stop acting like childcare, eldercare, parental leave, and wage suppression are just personal choices. they’re baked into th…
Or, trade your services for what people will pay.
Children will pay nothing, same as very mentally ill or extremely disabled people.
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#7We'd only expect to see wage equality if women had exactly the same job preferences as men, which empirically is absolutely not the case.
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#8idk how the hackernews community feels about this stuff but.. this is the usual oecd “gender equality is good for gdp” framing, which is fine as far as it goes, but it still treats care work like some side issue instead of the foundation of the whole labor market. if you actually want equality, stop acting like childcare, eldercare, parental leave, and wage suppression are just personal choices. they’re baked into th…
Oh boy, now you've done it. Now you're gonna get like 10 dissertations on the failings of the USSR.
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#9idk how the hackernews community feels about this stuff but.. this is the usual oecd “gender equality is good for gdp” framing, which is fine as far as it goes, but it still treats care work like some side issue instead of the foundation of the whole labor market. if you actually want equality, stop acting like childcare, eldercare, parental leave, and wage suppression are just personal choices. they’re baked into th…
I agree, it would be nice if we could prioritize basic human needs rather than treating them like burdens caused by bad luck or poor choices.
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#10We'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?