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None of this addresses the parent's comment - they believe the pay disparity along gender lines disappears when hours worked and time spent out of the workforce

None of this addresses the parent's comment - they believe the pay disparity along gender lines disappears when hours worked and time spent out of the workforce. > Women in their late 20s earn around 92% of what their male peers receive, whereas women in their early 50s make just 71% of the average man's wages That makes sense, but doesn't mean that disparity increases as a woman ages - my first impression is that a woman in her late 50s entered the workforce about 40 years ago. There was certainly pervasive inequity at that time, and the opportunities those women were excluded from early in their careers compound.

cmiles74 10y ago
It sounds like you believe it to be self-evident that pay equality was a problem in the past but not presently. What, to your mind, has made pay between the sexes equal in the last fifty years? While I grant you that people have made the issue more visible, I don't see any reason to think pay somehow became equal. On the contrary, studies insist that the problem persists to this day.
- LyndsySimon 10y ago
  > It sounds like you believe it to be self-evident that pay equality was a problem in the past but not presently. I've made no such claim. I do believe that there is not a significant disparity in pay or opportunity based on gender alone in the tech industry in the US today. That belief is based on my own experience, which is subjective, and therefore I wouldn't presume to tell others that they should share it.