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> what I dislike about stories like this is the implicit assumption that it has to be about sexism There is nothing implicit about this, she is expressing very

> what I dislike about stories like this is the implicit assumption that it has to be about sexism There is nothing implicit about this, she is expressing very clearly that this is about systemic discrimination across gender lines. Aren't you making the implicit assumption that the reason why women are paid less at Niantic, is because women are just "naturally" bad at negotiating? This is an argument used by misogynists to dismiss the pay gap, that it always must be something else because there is no such thing as sexism. So no, sexism is actually real, it exists, it is a real thing that is a problem that we should solve. > "A former Niantic employee filed a lawsuit [..] alleging that it devalued the work of female employees and women of color, denied equal pay to women employees and women of color."

arp242 3y ago
> Aren't you making the implicit assumption that the reason why women are paid less at Niantic, is because women are just "naturally" bad at negotiating? Well, I explicitly and clearly stated "I can't really say anything meaningful about Niantic specifically; maybe it is a horribly sexist company". All we have is a single case of a single person being underpaid. That doesn't really prove much of anything, much less "systemic sexism". Either way, giving women all sorts of tools and methods to address wage inequality and giving men none and telling them "sucks to be you", based on the average that women get paid less (and averages say NOTHING about individual cases), doesn't strike me as a good path forward.