Women want equal pay? Stop babysitting

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I'd like to volunteer for this $100/5 hour babysitting gig. You know anybody in the LA area hiring?

I thought this thread was going to be about why employers dont like to hire women. many know they will have kids so they will have to train somebody to fill their role during maturnity leave, and when mommy does come back to work she will be missing time constantly for kid doctor appointments or whatever.

but since this thread isnt about that, we need pics of these babysitters. only 18 yo and over of course

This is stupid. I overpay my babysitter on purpose. She always answers my calls, shows up on time, and babysit when I need her to.

I saw a request for a babysitter for 8.5 hours a couple of days a week. The pay worked out to be $2.50 an hour. Needless to say, it just drew comments and no takers.

I think the real reason for the pay difference is 3 fold:
1. women work fewer hours on average then men. They simply take more time off.
2. There are fewer women applicants in many high-paying fields (Construction, Engineering, IT, oil & gas, trades, ect)
3. Women lose time at a job and work experience while having kids. This puts them behind their male co-workers who don't have to (nor have the option to) take that time off to have children.

This leads to a "pay gap", when in reality, when working the same job and the same number of hours, women are generally paid the same or MORE.

OP is wrong. Women get paid just as much as men - for doing the same jobs. The equal pay argument is smoke and mirrors. It assumes that women are doing the same jobs across the board, and anyone from LA knows different.

I know 19-year-old men who make $60k+ working on oil rigs. Their non-college educated female counterparts are working cash registers at retail outlets for hourly wages. Women college graduates are going to work in entry level office jobs for a bit more, just like their male counterparts. By that time, the 25 year old male doing the hazardous oilfield job is making 80k, 100k or possibly more.

If women want the same pay, they need to do the same jobs, but you don't just show up to the rig floor with safety knowledge expecting to do just as well as a man. Not only is it dangerous, but it's physically demanding, and many women are simply, physically incapable of doing it. I don't care how hyped up they are from watching Katniss kill dudes in The Hunger Games. They cannot lift the weight.

$20.00/hour to babysit?!?! I want in!