Equal pay for equal work

[Dirty325ix]

I feel like that its saying that women in general make 80% of what men make as an overall average
Can't run a business with 100 secretary's

[cale]

The disparity between pay has long since been debunked. Equal pay for equal work does take place, cases where it doesn't occur are often cherry picked and I can just as easily do the same to find fields where females earn more than their male counterparts.

[jalopi]

The issue (IIRC) is that most bosses are men and tend to take men more serious when they're asking for raises/initial salaries than broads. Sexism is pretty strong in the workforce... hell, everywhere.

Also, I don't the gap is quite 20%, I think it's more like 13% or so

[Ether-D]

I don't think you've really thought this through

Then help me out. What have I missed?

Are employers just paying men more for fun? If women work for 80% of the money that men work for (and do the same amount of work) then everyone in their right mind would only hire women.

I just think that sometimes it may not be equal work. If my job was to stack cinder blocks, I'd very likely move 100 blocks to most women's' 80. If I got paid $100 and she got paid $80, would that be wrong?

[jalopi]

LOL, got a good laugh out of this

Pretty sure this was a big thing during the industrial revolution. Now companies won't do it because they don't wanna "sexually discriminate"

[BraveUlysses]

I don't think you've really thought this through

[Ether-D]

Hey r3v. I may be some kind of bad person for saying this, but it seems to me that if women were getting paid 80% of what dudes get paid, for doing the same amount of work, companies would just be full of women workers. Why pay a man more than a woman? Just to have a dude around? It doesn't make sense from a "bottom line" point of view.

Tell me why I'm bad and horribly wrong.