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Originally Posted by Krycek
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I've had a total of 4 job's in my life. At all 4 job's there have been women holding the same position as I did, made as much or more money than I did, and were physically unable to perform all the task's required for our jobs. Equality ya'll.
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Maybe they should allow those women more opportunities to hold management/leadership positions since they are unable to do the physicality of the job you work.
Jimjam's article informs us of this:
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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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"...the bulk of that gap results from differences in rank within companies, firms’ overall compensation rates and the nature of the tasks a job requires."
So basically it's not so much the position that pays more for men, it's the fact women tend to not get the higher paying jobs/positions within companies.
Sounds pretty unfair to me.
I too worked with women at very physically demanding jobs, and for whatever reasons they always promoted men at that workplace. Sure, some jobs in this workplace were harder for the women, it was a warehouse. But the fact is women worked equally hard at what they could do as the men. There are always lazy workers, but that goes across the board of men and women.
I don't fault women for not having the raw strength a man does, and I never expected them to be able to lift and pack or do what I could do when I worked in that warehouse. Men typically did the heavy lifting, rarely did women use the lifts where larger items were picked. This doesn't mean in my mind they should get paid less, or not have higher positions granted to them in the workplace but that seemed to be the case as we had zero women supervisors.
When I changed jobs I found an environment much more friendly to women and minorities but that was working for the government where women and minorities both seemed to find supervisory positions nearly as easily as men. We still had some racism in our workplace, but that didn't surprise me as 90% of the workers were white and the majority were men. This workplace had laws in place that protected women and minorities so the racism and sexism was hidden but it was there.
Regarding women, There are workplaces that are more equal for them, but I am pretty sure if you go across the board of all the different types of jobs, women will have a steeper hill to climb than men. Whether men want to admit it or not, sexism does exist, just as racism. Sadly it seems people are subject to these traits whether it's out of ignorance or it's just plain human nature I don't know.