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It's OFKU0, but don't worry about it.
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when it comes down to it, we must be careful of the numbers that are printed in any news media. the numbers that are fit for print are rarely trustworthy because they tell only part of the story; the part that is most controversial.
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As with special interest lobby groups as well. The numbers I took from Time were a collection from other news sources. Were they accurate? Beats me. But they were there. I rarely trust any one source since any statistics can be remodelled to fit whatever agenda is being pushed.
Not to piss up your tree pennywise, but I really couldn't care less about inequalities in the workplace with regard to either gender. Most of the women I know are professionals and never do I hear them complaining about less pay in comparison to their male counterparts or whomever. I think it happens to an extent but isn't as overblown as any first year Women's Studies course will tell you.
Some men make more than women, some women make more than men. If someone is being paid less than their co-worker, don't bitch about, work harder. Rarely do I believe the propoganda from special interest groups or again, any source for that matter. They have an agenda. They get government money. Is there inequality in the workplace? Sure there is. But it works both ways and that's what you don't hear about.
I'm a firm believer in if you have a problem with your job, are unsatisfied to the point of extreme stress, then quit. Why bitch about it. Because someone feels special? To bad. I have done it a few times. 10 years ago I was overlooked for an advancement although my education and experience should have won the day. The recipient was a women who shouldn't have been added into the screening process in the first place. The reason given: the company was going in a different direction. Fair enough. Nothing against the fact that it was a women who got the job, just that she was grossly under qualified. She eventually was replaced.
So I quit. Two weeks later had the same job somewhere else with more pay than I would have had at the former place even with the promotion. I didn't whine and bitch about. I didn't form a group to tell the world men like me are being discriminated against. Basically the need to prove myself overlapped my need to be a victim. So I did something about it rather than not.
Inequalities exist. Some chose to let that be a ball and chain of all contempt and others do something about it. Horses for courses.