Discussion on All-Girl events

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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.

First of all, there is a pay gap between men and women working the same jobs. I don't have time to look for a citation but I'm sure someone has one.

Second of all, what I find much more alarming than the handful of anonymous trolls, is the fact that somehow this guy has 4 rep bars!!! There are clearly some fairly high-rep CD accounts that support his garbage for him to have 4 rep bars after 8 posts, all of which are offensive comments on this thread.