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Why do you expect the demand for women to be different from the demand for similarly qualified men?
by umanwizard 7y ago
Why do you expect the demand for women to be different from the demand for similarly qualified men?
- slg 7y agoI don't, that was the idea I was arguing against. The comment I replied to put forward the hypothetical regarding every company wanting to hire 50% women in a world with only 20% of CS graduates being women. That would result in a world in which the demand for women is equal to men but the supply of women is much smaller than the supply of men. The natural result of that is that women have a higher salary than men. We know this isn't true so this is a modus tollens argument that disproves the original hypothetical.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoI don’t think anyone was making the argument you were arguing against...
- kortilla 7y agoYour wrong. The supply of women is the same as the supply of men when you don’t care about qualifications. And when you can’t legally pay someone more for their sex, you just lower the bar for that sex. So on paper it looks like they are making the same, but in reality they are making way more than their majority counterpart (because the incompetent majority wouldn’t even be hired in the first place).