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Originally Posted by GirlySports
The key question the interviewer was trying to make but couldn't properly is are men making more than women in the exact position. She was trying to say that at the BBC women aren't being pay fairly. But then even that can't be 100% equal due to experience and tenure at the organization.
As for choices in life that is true. I've had to make such choices with my family and enjoying working 35 hours per week for less money.
His being aggressive argument is easier said than done. Aggressive women in the workplace are viewed a bitchy while aggressive men are viewed as confident. And this is mostly coming from OTHER WOMEN!
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It appears that this bitchy vs confident thing isn't really true though. After trump won the election, people said that if Clinton talked like trump, people would like her even less and consider her bitchy. They tried to test this by getting a woman to talk like trump and a man to talk to Clinton, right down to the cadence, tone, etc as they could. There's an article on that here:
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publi...-reversal.html
It seems then, that how you speak and act when being assertive matters more than what gender you are. Even the comments in the YouTube video almost never refer to the author sounding bitchy, using words like aggressive instead.
There's a lot of other literature about this too; men and women in general have some slightly different speech patterns that make men seem much more confident and capable that women can learn to emulate and over the past couple generations have begun to naturally adopt.