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Originally Posted by Krycek
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Women are "allowed" opportunities for management/leadership roles...are you kidding me? Maybe they just aren't the most qualified to have them? I know sexism/racism exists, it's just not as rampant as a lot of ppl make it out to be.
Maybe they should be fired from the job's that they aren't able to perform, how's that for equality? Men usually have higher unemployment rates than women. Maybe if they replaced the women who couldn't do their jobs with men it would be a lil more equal?
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I think a lot of times when we are not in someone's shoes it's easy to determine what doesn't happen to them as rampantly as others claim.
Your statement of "Maybe they (women) should be fired from the job's that they aren't able to perform" can easily be changed to (men) and the narrative equally fits because I know for a fact I have worked with many a lazy and unfit working MAN in every field of work I have been in.
I checked unemployment rates of men and women and what I found was this:
It is widely known that a gender gap exists in the workforce: men generally earn more than women, and men are more likely to be employed than women.
-Stanford, Institute for Economic Research
AND to provide a second source of information I found this:
Bureau of Labor Statistics
https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm
You can look at for yourself on the stat sheet provided in my link above it clearly shows for ages of 20+ and older, both men and women are a dead even at 3.7% unemployment for 2016-2017 (up to November.)
This is why these kinds of discussions are difficult, because people sit on their laurels and either spout what their favorite "news" show tells them, or they pull anecdotal evidence out their asses to prove their narrative, neither of which are reliable sources of information.
If you can show me where it says men are "usually" unemployed more often than women I will concede but even if true the margin is so slight it's not worth mentioning, even looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website, you can see that different age groups of men and women can be slightly less or slightly more apt to being unemployed but there is no huge gap between them either way.
You made a very generalized statement to fit a narrative which is that women don't have it so bad in fact men usually have it worse and this is not true. You can't prove it by anecdotes or by any given statistics, none that I found anyway.
Fact of the matter is sexism does exist and it IS harder for women to rise up the ranks of leadership positions in most fields of work which happen to also pay the most amount of money which is why studies show the female gender DOES make less money than the male gender when you look at the big picture.