Male-female wage gap, managers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
>>At 05:27 PM 6/5/2002 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>
>>>Right. Women choose to have babies, and men choose to let them 
>>>take care of them. Is it too identarian to wonder about this 
>>>notion of "choice"?
>>
>>This is one of the possible reasons of the wage gap I cited.  Its 
>>purpose was to demonstrate that wage gap does not have to be a 
>>result of discrimination by employer.  It can result from a wide of 
>>factors, such as societal expectations and gender roles which shape 
>>individual job choices (cf. Reskin & Roos, _Job cues, Gender 
>>cues_). The point is to account for that complexity instead of 
>>using out-of-context information to promote an intellectual 
>>commodity or an ideology.  The "human capital" approach is 
>>ideology-driven crap, but so is much of the "discrimination" claims.
>
>Yup. I've read quite a few discrim studies, and I know that you have 
>to take all kinds of factors into account - job titles, education, 
>experience, industry, etc. etc. You're right that just using raw 
>numbers like that is misleading. But accounting for differences in 
>education, experience, job titles, etc. assumes away a lot of the 
>"pre-market" discrim that tracks people into occupations by gender 
>(e.g., voc ed classes that encourage men to be plumbers and women 
>beauticians), or the lack of child care options that hit women much 
>harder than men, etc. That's discrim too, but of a harder to measure 
>sort.
>
>Doug

I suppose that women will have a chance to become equal to men in 
wage, status, etc. only when women virtually become men: avoid 
pregnancy, eschew care-giving, assume attitudes encouraged in men, 
etc.

BTW, the report on the "glass ceiling" that started this thread isn't 
about discrimination by employers alone.  See it at 
<http://www.equality2020.org/glass.pdf>.
-- 
Yoshie

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