I'm not sure that anyone this side of a Madrass or an Appalachian holler really agrees that women "ask for it"...
...but let me ask you this:
why don’t they get equal pay, equal opportunities, and other things they ask for?
Women largely do get equal pay, when all other things are equal.
What unequalizes things? Women tend (largely) to go into lower-paid fields - social work rather than engineering, for example. And many of them take time - years - off from the career track to have and raise kids. This is not an option open to most men.
So let me ask you this: If you have a 40 year old guy who's been with a company for 18 years, and a 40 year old woman who started at the same time but took six years off to stay at home, who should get paid more, in all fairness?
(For now, we'll ignore the fields where the pay bias is pro-woman, like my second career...)
Actually, one too many teen boys still use that rationalization about girls who dress in a sexy manner. I've been surprised at what the boys will say when I've talked with classes of high school kids about this! Sad but true...
Also true that women are closer to getting pay equal to others who do the exact same job - a positive leap forward in only a generation. I'll even give you same job + same experience.
But it's not like women get promoted at the same rates as men yet. Let's get Condi Rice a little more company in the Cabinet, shall we?
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I'm not sure that anyone this side of a Madrass or an Appalachian holler really agrees that women "ask for it"...
...but let me ask you this:
why don’t they get equal pay, equal opportunities, and other things they ask for?
Women largely do get equal pay, when all other things are equal.
What unequalizes things? Women tend (largely) to go into lower-paid fields - social work rather than engineering, for example. And many of them take time - years - off from the career track to have and raise kids. This is not an option open to most men.
So let me ask you this: If you have a 40 year old guy who's been with a company for 18 years, and a 40 year old woman who started at the same time but took six years off to stay at home, who should get paid more, in all fairness?
(For now, we'll ignore the fields where the pay bias is pro-woman, like my second career...)
Actually, one too many teen boys still use that rationalization about girls who dress in a sexy manner. I've been surprised at what the boys will say when I've talked with classes of high school kids about this! Sad but true...
Also true that women are closer to getting pay equal to others who do the exact same job - a positive leap forward in only a generation. I'll even give you same job + same experience.
But it's not like women get promoted at the same rates as men yet. Let's get Condi Rice a little more company in the Cabinet, shall we?
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