but that it is just the way market forces work?
examples
1. women tend to major in softer subjects in college like sociology rather than math or finance - the law of supply and demand pays people with soft skills like counselors less than people on Wall Street.
2. women that are not college educated tend to do office work that is not unionized labor and does not require very technical skills or much physical strength - such as a machinist or plumber might. women have not made a huge attempt to unionize office labor and women tend to go back to college rather than do things like create unions.
3.women tend to leave the labor force at a crucial time in their career to have children. this puts them further behind the curve on the ladder to promotions.
4. women tend to be less aggressive than men in the workforce and less willing to attempt to promote themselves. i have witnessed this myself in the workplace as well as in MBA class participation.
i don%26#039;t believe there is any way to change this situation without installing some type of socialistic mechanism, which would be unfair as well and not characteristic of our capitalist society.
what are your feelings on this? never thought anyone was really out to deliberately screw women out of pay, just the way the factors above have created the gap.|||As a woman, I agree with all of your points. I happen to be an exception to the %26quot;pay gap%26quot; rule - I study mechanical engineering. When I%26#039;m finished with school, I have no doubt that my salary will be the same as that of a man with similar skills and achievements.
However, I have certainly noticed that the number of women in engineering drops off steadily as you progress to higher levels (with higher salaries). It%26#039;s just the way things are at the moment. Few women start out in fields that pay well (exactly what you said about women majoring in softer subjects), and for some reason we just don%26#039;t tend to last long. I think it%26#039;s time we started asking ourselves %26quot;why not?%26quot; instead of complaining about an imaginary pay gap.|||you have a point, but this is still a very sexist question|||I love how you question if it exists, when you prove that it does.
Look to your wife or future wife when children come and ask who is going to stay at home. Most men have too big of egos to bit the bullet and do the homemaking and children. Despite the fact that most women do still want to presue their careers
