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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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Being aggressive / assertive does not mean being bitchy. Though we view them similarly, just as men are judged as being dicks for similar behavior.
It is human nature to judge.
As for our own behavior, it comes down to choice. For example, sometimes we have to choose between being more popular / accepted, or being more successful. What he is saying isn't that men are better at these things, or that it is a 'male' thing to do, he is just saying that men seem to choose success over acceptance
more often than women do.
He similarly argued that men more often choose to sacrifice other things in a more determined and singular desire to get to the top. That doesn't mean that men are better at it, or that it is a male-only attribute, only that more men seem to make that choice than women. And if more men are walking the path, then it seems pretty reasonable that more men would reach the summit. Simple math.