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Why Do People Still Believe the Myth of the Gender Wage Gap?

It isn't real. Average differences in salary between men in contrast to women are largely due to one over-riding factor: choice.
Men have different interests, due to the fact they're not like women. Men like things, women like people. Men gravitate to objects like cars, trains, planes and things that go BOOM! Women like to talk, gossip, socialise, and hence they'll wind up in careers in nursing, psychology and teaching. Men are far more analytical, and will gravitate to the (highly sought-after, and therefore highly-paid) STEM positions, and end up becoming a data analyst, statistician, or invent something that they can sell to Elon Musk.
Men have greater ambition, work longer hours, are far more willing to sacrifice their leisure time with family in order to make it to the top of the corporate ladder. Women take far more holidays, sick leave, and are FAR more likely to opt to work part-time rather than full-time.
It really is this simple. "Discrimination" has NOTHING to do with it!
I mean, come on, think about this. If it were true that women got, let's say, 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man to do the exact same job, don't you think employers would do all they could to get away with hiring only women?
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DownTheStreet · 51-55, M
Never have I ever witnessed a woman being paid less, or having less opportunity, than a man in a professional setting.
Guitarman123 · 31-35, M
@DownTheStreet Anecdotal
FormerAtheist · 26-30
@DownTheStreet Neither have I. If it ever happened, I wasn't aware of it.
DownTheStreet · 51-55, M
@FormerAtheist I’d hope if you experienced it you’d confront it immediately. Real men would support you. As you well know, freedoms need to be defended at times. Those who think there’s a problem are only useful if they have the courage to act in the moment - as opposed to just be internet brave and think holding a sign on a street corner is “change”.
FormerAtheist · 26-30
@DownTheStreet
I’d hope if you experienced it you’d confront it immediately
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And do what, exactly? I've never been in a position where, if such a thing had occurred, I'd have been able to do something to change it.

As you well know, freedoms need to be defended at times.

Such brave words. Defended how? Using what?
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@DownTheStreet They were all paid properly in my work, where many of my superiors - at one stage including the CEO- were women.

There was even a system to equate relative levels of skill and grade across all fields of the entire organisation: admin, technical and support so no-one was treated unfairly simply by being in one field rather than the other.