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In reply to the discussion: Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)33. You're being disingenuous
You reference the patriarchy and imply it is being used currently to describe historical imbalances.
That is not how it is used currently. Currently it is used as an active conspiracy today by all men against all women.
That is what the term means. Do you believe in this conspiracy?
Oh poor put upon you. All those radfems conspiring against you with their mythological patriarchy. Stay on target. The issue is pay inequity.
Nonsense. You were the one who decided that the patriarchy was a real thing.
meanwhile, a progressive demcratic president passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to address the defanging of the Equal Pay Act, both of which are still required to address the pay inequality still demonstrably present in the work force, demonstrable that is, to everyone except the right and the republican party and their supporters, all of whom have their own reality, one based not in reality but in ideological perspective
Women are paid the same for the same job. The 25% pay gap is a myth or a lie depending on how you view the motives of those who push it. If women are being paid the same as men once all variables are considered what should be done to address this "discrepancy"? Insist they ought to be paid even more . . . the same amount as men? If you and I both do a dollars worth of work and we both get paid a dollar how can that be made more fair?
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Once all relevant variables are accounted for men and women make the same
4th law of robotics
Sep 2012
#2
When you account for benefits, the wage gap pretty much disappears entirely
Major Nikon
Sep 2012
#18
From a causality standpoint, I don't think the boys are the relevant audience.
lumberjack_jeff
Sep 2012
#55
Ah but if you believe in the patriarchy conspiracy theory, the problem does exist
Major Nikon
Sep 2012
#19
So why don't employers heavily favor women, if they can pay them less for the same work?
Major Nikon
Sep 2012
#45
Calling something you don't agree with "right wing" is intellectual laziness
Major Nikon
Sep 2012
#44
"the patriarchal system which existed 100 years ago allowed men more freedom than women"
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#48
No on has said that men being given more advantages 100 years ago was a rad-fem conspiracy theory
4th law of robotics
Sep 2012
#49
Wtf? It was just pointed out upthread that "the problem" most certainly does exist.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#21
If "we" are providing women with gender based academic assistance, it should stop.
MadrasT
Sep 2012
#30
I said "if" because I don't really know what is out there, assistance-wise, for girls vs. boys.
MadrasT
Sep 2012
#35
you keep conflating issues and dragging in 'rad-fems', porn, rape whatever.
Warren Stupidity
Sep 2012
#40