Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
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https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/04/14/statistica...
However, that does not mean companies shouldn't audit pay across race and gender, controlling for job role, level and performance.
Nor does it mean companies shouldn't audit performance reviews for inequity.
Nor does it mean companies shouldn't audit job role and level and promotion processes for inequity.
Nor does it mean companies shouldn't audit hiring processes for inequity.
Different people experience inequity in different ways. Some people experience it in more than one way. We need systemic solutions to address each of these failure modes.
Even in countries with generous leave policy, this lost time is unrecoverable and has a permanent affect on your career. For example, in Italy the mother is forced to take a year off whether they want to or not. That’s one year less of a promotion or pay raise.
Time is money and time not working is time not earning money. These are real obstacles women face in the workforce that drive down their earning potential. Successful women either choose to not have children, or earn enough to pay someone else to care for their children full time.
Think of it this way. If you flipped a coin a large number of times and 51% of the times it came up heads would you assume the coin was biased or would you suspect that it could just be random variation?
tl;dr - Men earn 7% more:
> We find that the entire gender gap is caused by three factors: experience on the platform (learning-by-doing), preferences over where/when to work, and preferences for driving speed.
https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf
Edit - I originally found out about this study from a Freakonomics podcast. These economists are chomping at the bit to get newer data (which will include tips). Their hypothesis is that women's earnings will increase, since women's tips are 10-20% greater than men's. However, they also say tipping increases the supply of drivers, which will serve to decrease utilization rate and thus lower hourly pay.
Nice journalism. Not biased at all.
As a white man, I don't have to deal with many categories of bullshit that people of color and women are subjected to. I do have to deal with a few things that they don't, but there aren't many of them.
The nature of privilege is that some people have more of it in certain contexts, and other people have more of it in other contexts. That doesn't mean that the playing field is equal.
And, uh, if I were a black or native man, I'd have all the problems you listed, and a whole bunch more.
Since you're placing so much emphasis on prison, as worse then any of the things I listed, it sounds like you you should agree that white privilege is a huge problem.
But let's take a step back. Since I'm a white man, my odds of being incarcerated are ~1/100. Small chance of that. If I were a woman, however, I'd be dealing with the problems I listed in my previous post all the time.
Read my posts. Nowhere did I ignore that inequalities in both directions exist. What I take issue with is people blowing the inequalities that disadvantage white men out of proportion. Almost all the gender-particular problems they have, men of color have, with a second and third helping.
You claim to take issue with people blowing inequalities out of proportion:
>What I take issue with is people blowing the inequalities that disadvantage white men out of proportion.
And yet that is exactly what you just did, by cherry picking one of the "lesser" problems men face (disproportionate incarceration), ignoring the others (higher probability of getting killed), and then using hyperbole ("all the time") in favor of women:
>Since I'm a white man, my odds of being incarcerated are ~1/100. Small chance of that. If I were a woman, however, I'd be dealing with the problems I listed in my previous post all the time.
Are you seriously proposing that our society doesn't give white men more opportunities than minorities and women? Or that they don't have to deal with shit that white men don't have to?
(If so I'd recommend the podcasts Reveal, Scene on Radio, Us and Them, and so forth.)
Here's a recent Reveal episode where they discuss how banks won't lend to black folks:
https://www.revealnews.org/article/for-people-of-color-banks...
Of course unequal lending and housing opportunities go back in time forever, with huge consequences for, e.g., the wealth that white vs. black families have been able to accumulate over time, since houses are most folks' biggest assets.
Here's a recent Scene on Radio episode where they discuss the long history of federal programs that benefit whites and exclude blacks, etc. Of course you should really listen to the rest of the series for context:
https://documentarystudies.duke.edu/podcasts/white-affirmati...
This is actually really interesting stuff to learn about, if you'd care to.
They aren't. 2× more is 300% of the base value. Asian men make 117% of what white men make, Asian women make 87% of what white men make (or 106% of what white women make.) So, Asian people earn between 6% and 17% more, not “2× more”, than what white people of the same gender make.
Again, I'm not trying to defend any white men or whatever, however don't you see the clear agenda this journalist is pushing?
Would there equally true statement that Asian men earn more than men of any other racial/ethnic category and more than women of any ethnic category be painting Asian men in a “bad light”?
White males are the comparison baseline, but Asians couldn't be used for that because they don't have data for the first decade+.
It also notes a possible reason for the gap: among adults ages 25 and older, 53% of Asians have a bachelor’s degree or more versus only 36% of whites.
[0]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/01/racial-gende...
Really? I feel the exact opposite. HN is full of articles like this, singling out white men, and claiming they are somehow either toxic or the beneficiaries of privilege.
I detest gender/identity politics, and don't think claims should be leveled against an entire group based on unrelated physical traits. This is the only reason I jump to defend "white men". If an article was posted making the same claims about another race/gender I would mount the same defense. However, those kinds of articles never show up here, because the are more obviously racist.