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Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, when women’s pay catches up to what men earned in the previous year. Even in this day and age, women still only make 77 percent of what men do. How big a problem do you think this is and can anything be done to narrow the gap between what men and women earn? How much of this if anything do you think the wage gap is based on gender discrimination?
“It’s not based on discrimination. It’s based on performance.”
“My wife works her butt off and makes more money han 95 percent of the men in the world. She elected to not stay home when she had a child and instead, went right back to work which is not work to her. She loves what she does and by the way our daughter turned out just fine.”
“It is a pay for performance thing… just like kids sports. Most girls play for the friendships, most boys want to exceed. I just cannot believe that, first, in the union world, that number has to be wrong. Men and women side by side will always make the same based on seniority. But if the women takes off six months to 10 years to have kids, they won’t have the seniority, so they get less pay. In the non-union world, women do tend to gravitate to lesser paying careers such as social working, speech and occupational therapy. Men move towards entrepreneurship, engineering, business, also known as where the money is.”
“These statistics are incomplete at best, and misleading at worst.”
“With more women than men going to college now, these numbers should eventually even out and at some point in the future, women will probably make more money than men. Those will be some very interesting times, that’s for sure.”
“You could see if the difference was around 90 percent. But with the difference being 77 percent, that’s just plain wrong. It’s time that something was down to really narrow that wage gap between men and women. How long do women have to wait to get paid fairly.”