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Couldn't it just be explained by saying that as more women enter a field typically dominated by men, the pool of potential employees expands and so the expected
by retox 9y ago
Couldn't it just be explained by saying that as more women enter a field typically dominated by men, the pool of potential employees expands and so the expected income from one of those positions decreases.
I'd say it's also true that as time goes on there are an increasing numbers of businesses 'going digital', which more often than not means getting a wordpress site and an e-commerce package set up. These are relatively simple, and don't require as much experience as a back-end position, and thus don't demand a high salary. You might have 50 businesses 'go digital', which employs 50 different web design shops, but they could all be hosted on the hardware from less than 5 hosts.
Just off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts, feel free to flame.
- UncleMeat 9y agoExcept that we didn't see this in fields that transitioned from female dominated to male dominated. There is more going on than just the number of workers. Our society still has a serious problem with undervaluing women.
- orionblastar 9y agoIn the 1950s and 1960s most programmers were women. Somehow during the civil rights era they stopped taking STEM courses and took the arts etc. It is claimed that boys who got 8 bit computers had replaced them, but I am a bit skeptical. Females and other genders should be able to learn how to program like makes, as gender does not matter for one to become a programmer.