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Originally Posted by driveway
This lawyer is a D-bag. Also, any notion that it's now a "woman's world" because women "aged 22 to 39 with no children and no spouse" out-earned men in the same category in "39 of the 50 largest US cities" is so fantastically absurd it's on par with the idea the moon landing was faked or that Elvis still lives.
From the same article: "the average American women still earns 20 percent less than men".
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How is this absurd?
Yes the average American woman is probably still earning 20% less, but there are such things as leading trends.
For example, it was only 10-15 years ago that the stat came out where women outnumbered men in first year college classes. Did you say - "well, men still outnumber women in general for college so hah, it means nothing"
It was only ~5-10 years ago where the stats were in that women were graduating at a much higher rate than men. Did you say - "Well, there are still more total male graduates aged 25 to 200 than women!"
Now, that same group is starting to progress into the working world, and surprise, they're earning more than men in the same age group. Of course, there are more men in the working world than women, but it is irrelevant to this discussion.
Feminists cling to the 20% wage gap as if it were gospel. But I absolutely believe that especially at the new-grad to intermediate level in today's Canadian society, men and women are completely equal. This article merely strengthens my belief in this.
Oh, the article also shows that this year is the first time where there were more women than men in "highly paid managerial positions." Whatever that means. Maybe we'll attach some significance to this 5-10 years from now.