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Originally Posted by driveway
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.
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I completely agree with your point on this.
But what really bugs me is that there is 140,000 cases of male rape in prisons in the US and society is silent about that.