Gender Pay Gap Bot

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12 points·jrgd··5 comments

In companies, men and women tend to have different roles. Quoting a pay gap that ignores this is misleading. The research I've seen says that when you control for occupation and employment history (women are more likely to work part-time or stop working while raising children), gender pay gaps are less than 5%.

If you actually sub-segment the population to control for this, I.e. “college educated, unmarried professionals”, you realize women actually make slightly more than men.

>men and women tend to have different roles

Indeed, this is part of the problem. We have a very high skew on our higher paid level of senior engineering being men, and women in QA or documentation. We have a training program underway for more women to train to take on better paid roles. Education is key, but advocacy is critical: without a female CEO or other high-level woman on the tech side, very few companies put in the effort to do this as it has a distant future payoff. But I believe it's critical. Someone long ago gave me a chance and I'm determined to do the same.

It's only a problem if you're sexist. I do not care what sex, colour, age, species etc. the senior engineering team is. I judge them on their merits.

You have a special training program in place for women to train to get better paid roles, but what about the men who would like to train to take on better paid roles? Again, sexist.

We advocate for all those in our lower paid positions to take up education.

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