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Originally Posted by Buff
NO. The argument is that if you can pay women (at all levels) 16%-25% less for the same quality and quantity of work as a man, companies which hire women preferentially will save significantly on labor costs and outcompete misogynist companies stupid enough to overpay for labor.
Look, I get it, the average IQ in America is about 98 ( http://sq.4mg.com/NationIQ.htm) because jackholes like yourself are dragging down the average. Just walk away, dude, you're in over your head. |
Typically you can't pay women less on all levels. Many of the places where women make less than men come in fields/positions that are typically male dominated and have few women in them. So those women have to accept less pay in order to get the job and get the chance to compete in the male dominated field.
I can give you two solid examples. 1. Nursing. Nursing is a female dominated profession. Almost every nurse you will encounter out there is a woman. Those nurses get paid well. There is no wage discrepancy here.
2. Logging. When I was a little kid my mom worked for a couple of years in a lumber mill. That mill had about 400 employees that worked in the mill itself (not counting the accounting/bookkeeping areas) and only 6-8 of them were women. My mom was paid about 20% less than the guys were. She didn't know it at first. They offered her the job and told her how much it paid and she took it. A few months later she found out she was making less. A few years after she left that job she ran into her old boss from the mill and asked him why she and the other women were paid less. He told her it was because the guys that worked in the mill didn't want women there because they felt they didn't do as much work and didn't work as hard. So when they hired women they offered them less money and that seemed to appease the guys.
If you could hire a women for every job in your company likely they wouldn't take the smaller wage just to get their foot in the door and they would demand to be paid what men are so your theory of saving yourself cash would likely not work.