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This is an argument that I have yet to see being addressed to my satisfaction. If recent raises / salaries in the tech industry outside of Silicon Valley are a
by parennoob 10y ago
This is an argument that I have yet to see being addressed to my satisfaction.
If recent raises / salaries in the tech industry outside of Silicon Valley are any guide, companies love to save money on salaries. So I honestly have no idea why all the men I work with haven't been replaced by women being paid 95% or whatever the claimed pay gap is. And remember, this is in the US, where you can legally be let go because your boss doesn't like the color of your shoes.
- ar15saveslives 10y ago> 95% or whatever the claimed pay gap is According to wikipedia, "the average female's unadjusted annual salary has been cited as being 78% of the average male salary", so you can save a lot.
- fatbird 10y agoBecause paying women less goes hand in hand with seeing them as not being comparable to male hires?
- Tossrock 10y agoBecause there aren't enough women applying. At my previous job, I interviewed 50+ people, and fewer than 10% were women. For the record, I advocated strongly for most of them, and contributed to several being hired, including one of the best engineers I've met. Companies have a hard time hiring enough software people in general, and there are many more men applying for software jobs than women. If there were some untapped pool of female engineers all looking for jobs, believe me, that pool would get tapped. It just doesn't exist.
- dongslol 10y agoSo is the argument that while companies can expect to save money on the whole whenever they hire women, not enough women apply? If so, women should have a much easier time finding work than men but get paid less. Is that what's happening?