Why do women get paid less than men?

[SimonMac]

FTFY

WHS!

[Troll]

Women Still Paid Less For Having Nice Tits And A Great Arse

THE pay gap between men and tasty birds who have nice little arses and a smashing set of knockers shows no signs of closing, according to new research.

Women are just as capable as men. And they have lovely titties.



The Fair Britain study found that men were still paid more on average than women even though a record number of women are wearing those tight woollen tops that show a healthy amount of cleavage and really accentuate their pert nipples.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: “It is distressing that in the early 21st Century women who bend over a lot or who put their leg up on their desk to straighten their stockings are still forced to work for less. Especially the ones that bend over. They’re the best ones.

“They’re like ‘Oooh Trevor, I’ve dropped my pen’ and then they take ages to pick it up and then when they do they suck it really slowly to make sure it still works.

“They should get twice as much money as everyone else in the world.”

Bill McKay, chief executive of recruitment agency Humans4Sale, said: “It is incredible that in an age where those micro-hotpants that leave absolutely nothing to the imagination are commonplace, that the bottom that goes inside them is somehow worth less to an employer than my bottom.

“Don’t get me wrong, my bottom’s not bad, but it’s not going to keep you awake at night.”

He added: “I can only imagine that women are worth less in the workplace because, you know, they’re all out of their ******* minds.

“And then there’s all the periods and their incessant, bulltulip chatter about the utter rubbish they’ve read in some ******* magazine or watched on Living ******* TV, or that they generally have the attention span of an idiot goldfish that’s just got Sky+ despite the fact that they are being paid good money to pick up pens and try on hotpants.

“Apart from that I haven’t the faintest idea.”

[formant]

Formant's going to be along soon to give you lot a right verbal spanking...

LOL.

It's a bit too obvious to bother with almost. *shrug*

Presumed and actual career breaks being a key issue of course. Fewer women qualified in complex, technical, and analytical skills is another.

As for unskilled jobs - more men in those that pay better (entry level manufacturing), in retail they're all paid poorly (somewhat justifiably so I guess).

Crap negotiating skills and not realising what you're worth could be another. I get paid well because I have a rare niche skill paired with IT skills more commonly found in men.

Many people, men or women, don't make much of an effort to make themselves worthy of decent pay or present themselves as such. I presume the fact that often enough women have 'other priorities' or the mindset that they could just rely on a partners income, will skew this to be even more common with women than it is with men.

And then there's the issue of behaviour at work. I've seen a lot of capable and qualified women do the 'being nice' thing to get ahead. They'd do anything to get ahead, thereby shooting themselves in the foot by becoming best known to the boss for making good coffee.

I've never made anyone coffee. I think, in the grand scheme of things, it's helped. No doubt, I'm more often perceived as intimidating than 'nice'. But in the time that others spend 'being nice' and 'mingling', I get the job done. That tends to get noticed.

[Troll]

Fewer women qualified in complex, technical, and analytical skills is another.

Can you think of any particular reason for that?

[formant]

Can you think of any particular reason for that?

I think there's still a lot of social priming going to to push men towards the sciences and women towards the arts. It's relatively subtle, but it's there and it starts early. I'd hope to be able to encourage my girls to give scientific and analytical subjects a chance.

That said, I started with a generic linguistics degree, then went into speech science and acoustics for postgrad, and straight into employment in speech technology. So it's not so much about what subject(s) you start out with, but going into particularly the humanities you're going to need a good plan for how that's going make you money someday. My other half is an anthropologist, but went into counterterrorism and cyberwarfare at the MOD and Cabinet Office, before doing private consultancy and then returning to teaching and research in academia. I doubt many anthropologists end up going far beyond unrelated/unskilled office jobs following graduation.

[BrilloPad]

Can you think of any particular reason for that?

They don't spend hours at some mind numbing task and prefer to party?

[Dallas]

I think there's still a lot of social priming going to to push men towards the sciences and women towards the arts. It's relatively subtle, but it's there and it starts early. I'd hope to be able to encourage my girls to give scientific and analytical subjects a chance.
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Yep,

my mum started me on Ballet

ended up going via martial arts to silly sweaty sports and systems engineering degree, and getting paid more than my peers

[formant]

my mum started me on Ballet

Now that's just cruel unless you expressed an explicit interest in dancing as a kid.

[BrilloPad]

Yep,

my mum started me on Ballet

ended up going via martial arts to silly sweaty sports and systems engineering degree, and getting paid more than my peers

Only because you bribed the MD by letting him train in front of you.....

PS I hope this doesn't affect me borrowing your bike bag?

[Dallas]

Only because you bribed the MD by letting him train in front of you.....

PS I hope this doesn't affect me borrowing your bike bag?

its best to pop the bike in from the inside - ie need to get in first ....

it looks abit like this ..

http://rrea.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/body-bag.jpg