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Originally Posted by sethypooh21
This is a terrible post. Is there any particular reason to suspect that males are better at any particular non-physical labor job or that females are better at HR. I mean beyond crude stereotypes?
I have no comment on the HR thing, but taking 9 months out for a pregnancy lowers your value as an employee in any profession.
This adds to the phony $.72 to the dollar statistic (of woman in the same jobs.) I read somewhere how it was derived, but it's certainly dishonest because it takes the average pay including time off for childbirth, and it doesn't differentiate professions so it is thrown off by a handful of female CEO's making a few million less than their male counterparts.
A different study found that in many jobs, woman were actually making slightly more than their male counterparts.
Not to say that there are never any unfair things based on gender, but much of it is distorted out of proportion.