The fact it, there is no large conspiracy to pay women less. If a company could get away with hiring only women who did their work just as well as the men but pay them less, every major company would be heavily female.

It's simple economics. Companies have to be profitable, so anything to increase those profit margins can and will be done.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/equal-rights-amendment-passed-by-congress

https://www.equalrightsamendment.org/why

The wage gap has been debunked many times

The problem with the wage gap is that it's misleading

It doesn't factor in many different things

https://www.bustle.com/articles/154101-13-ways-women-still-arent-equal-to-men-besides-that-wildly-stubborn-pay-gap ok ignore 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6

why ignore

we should read

sure but those aren't the ones im talking abt

Yea I’m reading that and thinking a lot of it is unsubstantiated and opinion based. Also that stats they use are manipulated to reach a conclusion that is false.

Basically woman have never had it easier

Change my mind

number 7 is wrong

GG @Biggser, you just advanced to level 3!

9 is wrong

10 is correct, but there are more men homeless than women

so it should just be ignored

11 is wrong

uh 12 is wrong

and 1 is not an issue

@ashnaa you're reading left-biased articles that should not be taken seriously

Back in Victorian times, when women did have lower pay, only women were hired in many jobs

So why does that not happen now?

Because glass ceiling and patriarchy <:ree:356316447548375070> screeching

Women don't have lower pay for the same jobs that's a myth

But there is a difference in average wages between men and women

And imo that's mostly just a relic of the patriarchal society we had in the past and will sort itself out in the next 10 or so years

As for stuff like maternity leave imo there should be a certain amount of paid parental leave available to a couple and whichever wants to take that leave can whether it's the mother or the father

That'd both stop descrimination against men in paternity leave being shorter than maternity leave

And that along with a shift in societal norms towards both parents taking part in the initial care of a child would stop that from affecting job prospects and pay of women more than it affects men

Obviously there is a difference between what men and women earn on average, because men and women are different. Equal, but they generally have different goals and ambition. If a woman doesn't enter a stem field on her own free will, but a man does, you cannot fairly compare their wages and go "See? Here's evidence of a patriarchal society!" and vice versa. @The Lemon

I'm saying the opposite though

We don't have a patriarchal society anymore

there are 3 genders'

Women under 21 actually earn marginally more than men under 21

male female retard

*dab*

end of debate

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