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Teach young girls to code, build, calculate, and bank. The only thing is—as we saw with the programmers and the secretaries—an industry often diminishes in status when more women enter it. The problem isn’t that the men have snatched all the high-paid jobs: The problem is that certain jobs are high paid because they are filled by men.
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men (Katrine Marçal)
Unequal Pay Claim by U.S. Women’s Soccer Team
I don’t watch much soccer, but I know this is one of the biggest events right now involving unequal pay. How exactly are they being paid unfairly if they negotiated differently than the men’s team?
It seems less like discrimination by the USSF and more about the U.S. women’s national soccer team wanting their cake and having it too.
Women are at the fore of the rediscovery of forgotten female Masters, and one organization is working to secure their place in history.
Being paid less than men for performing comparable work? No doubt, as that's just another example of male privilege run amok. If you work in NY, the law is now far stronger than the federal Equal Pay Act. You're entitled to share salary information with co-workers, and now any gender pay disparity must be linked to legitimate, actual non-sex based reasons for paying you less than men doing the same job. The penalties against the employer are now substantially increased. Make sure to document your suspicion and/or complaint of unequal pay so you'll have proof that you gave your employer every chance to rectify the sex-based pay discrimination before suing them.
The nineteenth-century hosiery industry, for example, employed both female and male workers. The women, however, would be put to work sewing up the toes of the stockings, which was the technically more complex task. They also turned out to be rather good at it, and because they turned out to be rather good at it, their employer started to view the ability to sew up a toe as a “naturally feminine attribute.” And if something was a “naturally feminine attribute,” then it needn’t be valued economically as a formal “skill”. Which meant the women could be paid less. This was all very practical. For the factory owners, at least. This way of reasoning put women in an impossible position. If an individual female worker was bad at something, it was proof that womankind as a whole should be paid less. Just look—these womenfolk can’t do the job like a man! But now, simultaneously, the exact opposite was being argued: If a female worker was good at something, it was proof that women should be paid less. Whatever her aptitude for the task, it was taken as proof of why she should earn less money. The trick was always to define anything a woman excelled at as a “naturally feminine attribute”. She simply couldn’t help but have a biological knack for closing the toes of silk stockings, programming computers, or looking after the elderly. This mode of thinking persists to this day.
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men (Katrine Marçal)
“British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi workers receive the lowest average hourly pay in the UK. In 2019, Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers had some of the widest ethnic pay gaps, respectively earning 15.3% and 15.5% less than White British employees.”
“British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi workers receive the lowest average hourly pay in the UK. In 2019, Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers had some of the widest ethnic pay gaps, respectively earning 15.3% and 15.5% less than White British employees.”
This is unacceptable, everybody and I mean everybody should receive the same pay for doing the same job - anything else is just exploitation.
Gender Bias in Workplace II – Blog Post #381 by Asrar Qureshi
Gender Bias in Workplace II – Blog Post #381 by Asrar Qureshi
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Megan Rapinoe
Unequal Pay
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What is Motherhood Penalty, and how does it contribute to gender pay gap? If your company doesn’t correct what they are doing that is discriminatory toward you as a result of your pregnancy, which is inseparable from who you are as a woman obviously, you wanna be in a position where they would have to make you happy in the separation. If you have to get a divorce from your company, you want to be able to leave with your head held high, and your shoulders squared. And if you need assistance, with your particular sex-based workplace challenge, particularly, as it relates to pregnancy, give us a call at Women’s Rights at the Workplace.
