mirozNo one is claiming women should get equal pay for different work...
And just because they're facts, doesn't mean that things should be that way. More involvement of underrepresented minorities and an increase in workforce diversity, in STEM in particular, would be a huge plus for invention/innovation. That too, is fact.
sure, that can lead to great innovation. Now get women motivated to get into engineering!
I majored in Electrical Engineering and there were no girls in the class. Does that mean the college I attended is sexist? The nursing program was full of chicks with only a few dudes. Is the nursing program sexist?
My job has a few black people out of 100s of employees. But, no black people are applying. And they make up 25% of the population here. Does that make my company racist?
See what I am saying? The gap is more to do with what jobs the genders are working verses sexism.
The following is from this article:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wage-gap-myth-that-wont-die-1443654408
What factors? Start with hours worked. Full-time employment is technically defined as more than 35 hours. This raises an obvious problem: A simple side-by-side comparison of all men and all women includes people who work 35 hours a week, and others who work 45. Men are significantly more likely than women to work longer hours, according to the BLS. And if we compare only people who work 40 hours a week, BLS data show that women then earn on average 90 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Career choice is another factor. Research in 2013 by Anthony Carnevale, a Georgetown University economist, shows that women flock to college majors that lead to lower-paying careers. Of the 10 lowest-paying majors—such as “drama and theater arts” and “counseling psychology”—only one, “theology and religious vocations,” is majority male.
Conversely, of the 10 highest-paying majors—including “mathematics and computer science” and “petroleum engineering”—only one, “pharmacy sciences and administration,” is majority female. Eight of the remaining nine are more than 70% male.
Other factors that account for earnings differences include marriage and children, both of which cause many women to leave the workforce for years. June O’Neill, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, concluded in a 2005 study that “there is no gender gap in wages among men and women with similar family roles.” Time magazine reported in 2010 that in 98% of America’s largest 150 cities, including my hometown of Los Angeles, single women under 30 actually earned, on average, 8% more than their male counterparts.
