Gender pay gap

[Kinser79]

(05-17-2016, 03:23 PM)Odin Wrote: Women are still subject to significant degrees of sexism in male-dominated fields and so feel discouraged from even trying to get in them. Look at the GamerGate BS, for example, how many women are going to bother trying to go into the video game industry when they risk getting their lives ruined by harassment mobs? And in At-Will states a lot of non-discrimination laws are basically toothless.

Bullshit. Women have dozens of scholarships for STEM fields not available to men. Furthermore, companies would hire a mideocre woman over a skilled man by virtue of being a woman in order to virtue signal that they are not in fact sexist.

As for Gamer Gate...See Milo.

As a resident of an at-will state, let me make it clear. If a company can save 23% on wages by hiring a woman instead of a man, they will do so. As such where are all the female engineers? The female sanitation workers? The simple fact is that women have the power to make choices. They can take this job that pays X and isn't physically demanding or doesn't require such-and-such degree, or they can take that job that pays X+Y but is physically demanding and require such-and-such degree.

Otherwise Odin your argument rests on the idea that women have no agency at all. Which last I checked was the very definition of sexism.