He’s right. Gender pay audits *should* be shelved. Next.https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1137292735776481280 …
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I mean A. Lots of things are illegal but people still do them. But more importantly, we need to look at why women typically have lower paying jobs in general than men. That's what the gap is about, not necessarily discrimination (although that could of course play a part).
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Gender wage gap %s are calculated from the *average* earnings of
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The overall one does, yes. But there are pay gap studies within individual sectors and professions.
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Also the overall one should make us ask why more women are primary school teachers and more men are petroleum engineers. There could be a valid reason, but we should ask.
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The reason is simply individuals making their own free career choices. Broadly speaking, many women have a preference for jobs involving more face to face interaction such as care work, nursing, retail. These are less lucrative that the specialised and often dangerous jobs that..
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...many men tend to favour. Of course there are always exceptions but these are the observable trends. The assumption is that an over-representation of men in any given sphere means that women are somehow being excluded. Primary school teaching is predominantly female and I....
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....don’t see any campaigns for more male teachers. No one sees this as a problem. I also don’t see any campaigns for more female sewage workers or garbage collectors. Just more female CEOs. Men and women have different interests. More men are just interested in engineering
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Yep and that's absolutely fine. I'm not calling for a 50:50 split in every job. But that's not always the reason, and it's not always the whole reason. My point is that we need to explore how much this accounts for and what the other factors are.
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With respect not everyone follows the lawhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44655335 …
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