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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Depends on what you mean by myth. Once you factor in hours worked and choices of professions, the gender income gap is about 2 per cent. In Canada, single women who have never married earn 98 per cent of what single men who have never married earn. Everything changes with marriage and child-rearing, with substantial reduction in hours worked by women, and increase in hours worked by men. Even in the highest-earning professions, such as medicine, women work far fewer hours in their working lives than men.
Not sure what this has to do with Calgary municipal politics, though.
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It has a lot to do with municipal politics actually.
You implied that gender wasn't a factor in how civil society critiqued Druh Farrell. You used a comparison of another female councillor and an example of how criticism if Farrell wasn't gendered.
I was unsatisfied with your argument and felt in was a non sequitur. I felt it lacked nuance. I made a cheeky comment about the wage gap being a myth, and you responded in the same way (probably meaning to logical no nonsense) of your first analysis (that I still don't agree with). I think we make some very different basic assumptions about micro aggressions and the structural inequality of our patriarchal society.
The critiques of female so call progressive politicians, be they Farrell, Rachael Notley or Julia Gillard are most definitely coded in gender.