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Your right, women get hired more easily and get paid more, so it is very much not symmetrical.

xenophonf 10y ago
At least in the U.S., women get paid less: http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/ http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gend... I couldn't quickly locate a study comparing employment rates. Perhaps you have data backing up your claims?
- btilly 10y ago
  The claim was pretty clearly meant as sarcasm.
  - jacalata 10y ago
    It's not clear to me, I would not be at all surprised to see someone make that claim here.
  - clifanatic 10y ago
    I don't think he was being sarcastic at all. I'm sure it's true of younger women.
    - xenophonf 10y ago
      Sadly, that is not the case. From the aforementioned link: http://www.aauw.org/files/2016/02/Fig-5_spring-2016.jpg http://www.aauw.org/files/2016/02/Fig-5_spring-2016.jpg The median salary of younger women, ages 16-34, is 90-92% that of their male peers, a smaller but still significant gap compared to the median salary of older women, ages 35 and up, which is between 76% and 81% that of their male peers.
dang 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12130029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12130029 and marked it off-topic.
- clifanatic 10y ago
  The original post was about sexism. If any sub-discussion about sexism is off-topic, why not just delete the entire post?
  - dang 10y ago
    In this case the comment appeared trollish, and appearance of trollishness becomes reality in threads like this. More generally in case you're interested, the thing we look for in moderating this sort of thread—i.e the sort that usually turns into a flamewar—is whether the discussion is staying concrete or whether it is veering into ideological generalities, which have the gravitational pull of black holes and are about as interesting to look at. I posted a bit more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132109.

At least in the U.S., women get paid less: http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/ http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gend... I couldn't quickly locate a study comparing employment rates. Perhaps you have data backing up your claims?

btilly 10y ago
The claim was pretty clearly meant as sarcasm.
- jacalata 10y ago
  It's not clear to me, I would not be at all surprised to see someone make that claim here.
- clifanatic 10y ago
  I don't think he was being sarcastic at all. I'm sure it's true of younger women.
  - xenophonf 10y ago
    Sadly, that is not the case. From the aforementioned link: http://www.aauw.org/files/2016/02/Fig-5_spring-2016.jpg http://www.aauw.org/files/2016/02/Fig-5_spring-2016.jpg The median salary of younger women, ages 16-34, is 90-92% that of their male peers, a smaller but still significant gap compared to the median salary of older women, ages 35 and up, which is between 76% and 81% that of their male peers.

dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12130029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12130029 and marked it off-topic.

clifanatic 10y ago
The original post was about sexism. If any sub-discussion about sexism is off-topic, why not just delete the entire post?
- dang 10y ago
  In this case the comment appeared trollish, and appearance of trollishness becomes reality in threads like this. More generally in case you're interested, the thing we look for in moderating this sort of thread—i.e the sort that usually turns into a flamewar—is whether the discussion is staying concrete or whether it is veering into ideological generalities, which have the gravitational pull of black holes and are about as interesting to look at. I posted a bit more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132109 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132109.