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Your condescension is unnecessary. I never suggested there is a grand conspiracy. I stated that as a career ends up with more women in it, wages drop. It doesn
by pwinnski 9y ago
Your condescension is unnecessary.
I never suggested there is a grand conspiracy. I stated that as a career ends up with more women in it, wages drop. It doesn't take a central planning or a conspiracy of any kind for that to be true. It takes only a dominant trend of valuing the work of women less than the work of men, which is what the evidence supports.[0]
"The national average starting teacher salary is $36,141, while the average teacher salary in America (non-starting) is $56,383."[1] "The Labor Department reports that software developers made a median salary of $100,080 in 2016. The highest-paid 10 percent in the profession earned $157,590 in 2016, while the lowest-paid earned $58,300."[2]
If a hypothetical group of people find that they are largely excluded from both careers, it seems reasonable to think they would be more upset about being excluded from the one that pays roughly twice as much.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...
[1] https://articles.niche.com/teacher-salaries-in-america/ https://articles.niche.com/teacher-salaries-in-america/
[2] https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...
- solarkraft 9y agoThis may have to do with women tending to be less selfish/aggressive negotiators.
- tomp 9y agoYou keep implying that somehow, sexism is the cause. What if the wages simply fall as more people enter a field? Then, maybe men become more demotivated to work in that field, and seek other, better opportunities? To me, that's the simplest explanation.