re: Women want equal pay? Stop babysitting

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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.

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agree with this, in my experience women don't want to work, they want the prestige of the title of the job, but they don't want to put in the sweat equity to get there, they always want short cuts, when they finally get there, they do everything they can to minimize time at the work place, start squirting out babies, and usually "retire" early, my ex-sil was a ME undergrad, got a real nice internship at a huge engineering firm, they liked her, paid for her to stay in school and get a masters, then hired her, she got pregnant, quit, and hasn't worked a day since(over 20 years,) I'm sure there more than a few other stories like this

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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.

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this is the big difference-maker. it's why abortion is such a sacred cow of feminists. thomas sowell was doing work on this back in the 70s

in the same field, there is no pay gap if a woman hasn't had kids.

1 and 2 do contribute, but 3 is the big one that skews everything