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A sign saying: "MEN TEND TO CHOOSE HIGH PAYING PROFESSIONS - LIKE DOCTOR, ENGINEER, CEO, ETC., WHILE WOMEN NATURALLY GO TOWARD LOWER PAYING CAREERS - LIKE FEMALE DOCTOR, FEMALE ENGINEER, AND FEMALE CEO."
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A thing to take into account is male dominant professions sometimes being wildly toxic towards women which will push them away from that career path.
It's also worth noting that careers like teaching were once highly respected and well-paying fields dominated by men. However, once women became more dominant in the field, the career as a whole lost both respect and pay essentially overnight. Nothing about the job itself changed, only the dominant gender.
It's honestly disgusting that people still try to defend this misogyny as some kind of physiological thing.
I see your point though I’ve heard female nurses are awful towards male nurses.
And to a lesser degree men tend to avoid highly women centric workplaces, either due to toxic masculinity (nurses, anything to do with sewing and so on) or just not having other people whom they can relate to easier.
I've experienced toxic workplace environments towards men in fields dominated by women. It happens both ways.
At least men and women are equal in their ability to be assholes.
Hear hear
toxic femininity
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everyone with half a brain will agree that a lot of gender norms assigned to both men and women can be incredibly toxic. toxic masculinity just tends to be louder
Very true
I'm not arguing with your point at all, which is a good one, but this one hits me kind of funny. In Coast Guard aviation, the Rescue Swimmers (the guys who jump out of helicopters to save people, are in incredible shape, etc) have two main jobs when they aren't actively flying: work out, and sew. Their shops have several industrial sewing machines in them, and they are excellent with them. You rank up and need new patches on your uniforms? Leave them in the swimmer shop with a six-pack, they'll get done better than any shop you might take them to. A lot of the survival gear gets made or repaired by them, so they have to be good.
So it's just funny that the most hardcore, masculine men (and women) in the Coast Guard all sew for a living.
Women weren't allowed to have ANY jobs less than a lifetime ago.
There is absolutely no logic in your leap from "I see bias" to "phisological differences in genders warrant differences in pay."
It's fallacy all the way down with a large rosy tinted privilege lens.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt and for that, I am sorry.
if you were cute, obedient, and good with makeup maybe you could be a housewife too but the patriarchy doesn't want to let you have that life
The pay gap discussion doesn’t only revolve around some work being compensated less than other work (retail vs some office job). The main issue, as far as I’m informed, lies in the same work being compensated differently solely based on gender.
Another point considering work that is better performed by men. We may call for fair wages taking the different output into account. But at least a discussion should be had on whether we want that (equality vs equity).
That last picture isn't liberation, they're now in the field of play and are therefore the shittiest outfielders I've ever seen. Setting aside not being in uniforms, they're all like 20 feet from 2nd base and so tightly clustered there's effectively no coverage in LF or RF. A line drive anywhere but dead center scores a runner on first in the best case scenario, more likely an easy inside-the-parker. If I was their skipper they'd be running drills till the sun came up.
liberation will fix the tall guys bald spot
NB: While barbers mostly work with men's hair, and stylists mostly work with women's, the jobs themselves are not gendered-- Lots of female barbers and male stylists. Some of the most famous stylists, like Vidal Sassoon for example, are male. Famous barbers are less of a thing, but on the total other end of the spectrum, the barber college in my area has a pretty even gender balance.