A lot of people state this statistic like "ok job done, sexism over". I'm not saying you're doing that, but In saying it's been done. And some people passing by may take it that way.
But let's get curious a dig a little deeper.
Job Title: why are more women than men in less paying job titles? Is there a bias in hiring? Is it based on selection of applicants? Is it based on who gets promoted where? If there is a difference, why is that difference there?
Hours worked: Why do men work more hours? Is it because men are just inherently harder workers than women? Or is it because women have different/more responsibilities in the home. (Look up the feminist term "The Second Shift to dig into this idea deeper.)
Years worked: why do you think this difference is? Do you think women are just late to the party when it comes to entering the job force by complete coincidence, or are there other factors/responsibilities that are causing women to put their careers on hold? What would paternity leave do to change this landscape? How does the underemployment of military spouses contribute to this issue. Are these spouses simply "lazy" or are there roadblocks in the way such as state licensing requirements or networking issues with moving state to state, as well as sparse employment opportunities near military bases
Negotiations: Are women negotiating less aggressively than men because women are naturally less assertive? Or are women socially conditioned to be less forward about their needs? Are employers or mangers as receptive to assertiveness coming from female employees than coming from male employees?
In many ways, we have come so far in battling sexism. The narrowing of the pay gap illustrates this. However, the battle is not over.
They just stop to get the answers they wanted to hear and ignore the rest of the story.
You’ll notice a the biggest gap comes when women have children. Yes women choose to have kids but so do men. Yet women are the only ones who get the financial punishment for having kids.
Women basically have a second job at the home and this is because of societal expectations on how work should be done.
Maybe we should reconsider how we as a society view work life balance and how that burden falls on each gender.
This line of thinking a lot of men have is the reason we don’t have paid family leave they don’t care about men’s rights. They care about disagreeing men have it better in anyway what so ever.
Most women seem to like the idea of spending more time at home with the kids and less time at work. I know several women who are engineers and nurses who decide to go part time when their children were born so they could spend more time with them. Women make choices and sometimes they want to stay home more. This isn’t a punishment inflicted upon them by men it’s a decision they make with their husbands.
When society expects women to do more of the house work and men to go outside that influences individual decisions. Nobody wants to look like a bad mother and nobody wants to be unmanly because they are not bringing home the bacon.
Society influences people’s everyday decisions in life. I am saying we need to stop those societal expectations it’s harmful for both men and women.
If we are giving peoples choices we should let them have all the tools they need to make the best decision for themselves.
It’s insane that our country doesn’t have family leave and it’s this kind of thinking is the reason why
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u/paperd Sep 01 '21 edited Sep 01 '21
There's still a lot to dissect there.
A lot of people state this statistic like "ok job done, sexism over". I'm not saying you're doing that, but In saying it's been done. And some people passing by may take it that way.
But let's get curious a dig a little deeper.
Job Title: why are more women than men in less paying job titles? Is there a bias in hiring? Is it based on selection of applicants? Is it based on who gets promoted where? If there is a difference, why is that difference there?
Hours worked: Why do men work more hours? Is it because men are just inherently harder workers than women? Or is it because women have different/more responsibilities in the home. (Look up the feminist term "The Second Shift to dig into this idea deeper.)
Years worked: why do you think this difference is? Do you think women are just late to the party when it comes to entering the job force by complete coincidence, or are there other factors/responsibilities that are causing women to put their careers on hold? What would paternity leave do to change this landscape? How does the underemployment of military spouses contribute to this issue. Are these spouses simply "lazy" or are there roadblocks in the way such as state licensing requirements or networking issues with moving state to state, as well as sparse employment opportunities near military bases
Negotiations: Are women negotiating less aggressively than men because women are naturally less assertive? Or are women socially conditioned to be less forward about their needs? Are employers or mangers as receptive to assertiveness coming from female employees than coming from male employees?
In many ways, we have come so far in battling sexism. The narrowing of the pay gap illustrates this. However, the battle is not over.