Women and men can?t be equal. They have babies! (Male and Female Pay Differentials)

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Product:	Male and Female Pay Differentials
Date:	10/03/02 (14 review reads)
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Advantages: Girls can do the same jobs

Disadvantages: Kids

The news that female graduates under 24 get 18% less than their male counterparts for the same graduate positions is real teaser. Obviously the position isn?t advertised as guys earn more than girls for this job in bold black type. Its more likely that the companies offer a male and female draught each year with the same job offered under a different title if they have a pay differential prejudice.
What?s also likely to happen is that males in the same positions are more likely to be competitive and earn more through commitment in closing deals where applicable and bonuses through arrogance.

Girls generally are more subtle at work and tend not to have the same macho attitude fueled by testosterone that may achieve higher returns for them and the company. That male hormone means guys want it more in a competitive environment which means trampling on girls who don?t quite have that intensive win at all costs attitude.

Its envitable to that with this culture, more bosses in certain industries are more likely to be male and would block girl?s promotion because of their experience. The BBC has a show on at the moment about civy street people trying to get in the SAS.
The instructors are openly critical of allowing women in to the core and apply the grueling physical and mental test equally to both sexes.
And of course after one episode we have lost all but one of the girls to the nineteen remaining guys fueled on those more aggressive hormones and egos.

So even at a young roar age bosses recognize that female graduates in certain disciplines are not going to generate their company as much s male counterparts which is reflected in the wages.

Now where it becomes more apparent is in older university educated males and females as the gap opens like the Grand Canyon. Over 50 girls in the same career and position get an incredible 50% less that the guys.
The equal opportunities people who commissioned this survey has la
unched an initiative where girl?s can inquire why they are being underpaid at such a young age. Older girls are more likely to have children or drop out which is understandable with around one in three graduates married and part time in other disciplines by the time they hit the big 30 in work terms.
Guys of course just crash on as they have no maternal instincts or the means to deliver one so have no natural inclination to stop.

The problem is though that pay reviews are more likely to expose female failings than an unwillingness for employers to pay equitable salaries. Obviously if a large chunk of women train and study for a certain career and then get married and have a kids, they are unlikely to reach the same commitment and salary levels as their more committed male equivalents.
Nine out of ten employers don?t believe they have a bias towards guys but tend not to back it up with a pay review.
But if girls are just as good and if not better than guys in the same roles it would be logical to pay them more to keep em.

Its basic economics that you invest in something or someone that?s going to give you the best return. Maybe girls are still a little intimidated with the male orientated work place and attitudes that reflects in the salaries. That alone could encourage them to opt out of their chosen career and perhaps take an easier option by marrying or having kids. Women always have an option to step out of their job when marriage or partnerships come along.
This of course puts more pressure on the husband to achieve which helps to continue that cycle of non-parity between the sexes.

The same organization that initiated this survey told us to years ago through a similar pole that 92% of women of all employment over 40 if given the option would like to change or leave employment to work around their families and lifestyles. That sounds a touch contradictory to all the girls who say women on block are changing attitudes an
d role reversing.
The final irony here is that the hundreds of female staff at ACAS, the union arbitration board are in dispute with the management that the wage structure was set up to discriminate against women.

Ok I know the girls will rant at me who are balancing career and family amicably with the husband at home or working. But at the end of the day the reason women are not as powerful in the work place is because they have the option and glass ceiling of having children at anytime in their careers which could mean an abrupt ending to all that investment and time in them.

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