re: Women want equal pay? Stop babysitting

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.