S.LAM

Documenting life.

[spooksier]

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other?”

— Rebecca Stead (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[codedsoul]

[whodykejones]

This is revolutionary. I struggle so much with applying this to how I live my life.

[blackberryshawty]

me and my friends bonding over shared trauma™️:

[historical-nonfiction]

Vogue Actually Printed This Crazy Diet In The 1970s

[huffylemon]

Favorite story posts part 1

[medictex]

That last one

[majesticaljeff]

My dad says the ‘making love in a canoe’ about american beer

[paprika]

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

I’ve definitely noticed this.

[tinderventure]

Wish i could actually test that

[mcavoy]

You’re strong, you’re a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this. 

[cinemove]

[hellyeahrihannafenty]

[wildeuphoric-deactivated2021051]

boom crack the sound of my back

[unclefather]

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops

Work done by women pays less because women do it, research shows.

It may come down to this troubling reality, new research suggests: Work done by women simply isn’t valued as highly.

That sounds like a truism, but the academic work behind it helps explain the pay gap’s persistence even as the factors long thought to cause it have disappeared. Women, for example, are now better educated than men, have nearly as much work experience and are equally likely to pursue many high-paying careers. No longer can the gap be dismissed with pat observations that women outnumber men in lower-paying jobs like teaching and social work.

[chamomileyes]

A striking example is to be found in the field of recreation — working in parks or leading camps — which went from predominantly male to female from 1950 to 2000. Median hourly wages in this field declined 57 percentage points, accounting for the change in the value of the dollar, according to a complex formula used by Professor Levanon. The job of ticket agent also went from mainly male to female during this period, and wages dropped 43 percentage points.

The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points). The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige.

[femininewritings]

This is the stark reality. The pay gap exists not because of women’s “inability” but because they are viewed as inherently less valuable human beings.

That’s it!

[skimcasual]

This is why teachers and nurses are paid less.

[elfwreck]

I’m hoping the new “salary history ban” laws will start to change this. In three days (Jan 1 2018), California won’t allow employers - or their agents, like staffing companies - to ask about previous salaries AND they have to provide the pay scale of a job on request. 

No more gradually sliding the salary range down as women join an industry. It might still happen - new job openings will just be set at a lower pay rate - but women joining an existing male-dominated field won’t be offered “10% more than what you made before” which was usually lower than men made at their previous jobs. They’ll be told the  pay range - and if women are always offered the lower end of that range, it’ll be really obvious there’s discrimination going on.

California has about 10% of US employees. There are similar laws in Oregon, Massachusetts, Delaware and Puerto Rico, along with several large cities: New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and city employees of Pittsburgh, PA. It’s likely that staffing agencies will just start giving out salary ranges and stop asking, because it’ll be harder to set up different protocols for different jobs. 

[cantcontrolthegay-deactivated20]

where is the lie

[brittascribbles]

THIS

[chescaleigh]

plus “sorry IF” means the sorry is conditional. but there’s no reason to put conditions on an apology. the person is hurt so there’s no reason to say IF. just say you’re sorry. 

[ithelpstodream]