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Originally Posted by Regorium
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.
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I'm not saying that it means nothing, merely that it's not an indicator that somehow the balance of power has shifted to favour women, or that somehow it's a 'woman's world'.
While it may be true that men and women today have equal access to opportunity to work at the new-grad to intermediate level, that is a far cry from being socially equal.
Take, for example the thread right here on the main page of CP about the six prison guards "Living the Dream." This is a thread about people illegally observing two other people engaged in sex via a closed-circuit camera and our response to it here is to make jokes about how "hot" lesbianism is and reminisce about soft-core jail-porn. That's evidence of a profoundly discriminatory mentality.
I think it's great that women have the access to opportunity that they do, and I agree that in time, with the amount of women graduating college and entering the work force that we are going to see a levelling of the wage-gap. I also agree that with time we're going to see a levelling of the number of male and female CEO's and other executives.
But the workforce is only a segment of society and you're deluding yourself if you think that equality in pay equals equality in life.