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Originally Posted by Drake Vargas
The gender pay gap is a statistical myth for the exact reason you mentioned. Women traditionally take on lower paying jobs (Psychology, pediatrician, art vs math, cardiac surgery, orthopedic surgery) as well as take more time off for child rearing.
Pay gap exists, but only when you total up all the money earned by women and all the money earned by men- which is a deceitful way of looking at it.
A man in field X and a woman in field X will make the same amount provided they work the same number of hours at the same level of rigor.
I do agree that the reason there is a bigger push for women in engineering is because it pays more, simple as that. Nobody wants to be a garbage collector, so nobody is going to push for a man or woman to become one. However, the women that do go to college and graduate tend to pick majors that lead into lower paying fields.
Whether this is a result of some sort of systemic sexism, that's up for you to decide.
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It took less than ten seconds of Google searching to find
a US Department of Labor article debunking all of these claims, showing that the gender pay gap persists even when you control for time off due to pregnancy, presence of advanced degree, job title, etc.
The information is out there and is, quite frankly, very easy to find. If you don't want it to be true, that's another story. Discrimination isn't a myth.