#gender pay gap

[mindblowingscience]

For nearly two decades, the negotiation skills of working women have frequently been blamed for the gender pay gap. New research by Vanderbilt Professor Jessica A. Kennedy finds the gender difference in tendency to negotiate has now reversed, and the widespread narrative that women don't ask is outdated. While other measures are necessary to completely close the gender pay gap, the study also discusses how people who believe and adhere to the notion that "women don't ask" hinder progress. "Our research shows that women are willing to do their part to close the gender pay gap. Unfortunately, negotiating well isn't enough to close the gender pay gap. It's not the source of the problem," says Kennedy.

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#science #stem #social science #gender pay gap

[thefugitivesaint]

“Helen Gorrill, the author of Women Can’t Paint, has studied the prices of 5,000 paintings sold all over the world and found that for every £1 a male artist earns for his work, a woman earns a mere 10p. “It’s the most shocking gender value gap that I’ve come across in any industry at all,” she told me for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Recalculating Art.

It really is shocking. For some time, women have made up 70% of students in art college, selected on merit, and the art world prides itself on its liberal, progressive values. Yet it presides over the biggest pay gap I can think of.

Gorrill stumbled across another startling finding. While the value of a work by a man rises if he has signed it, the value of a work by a woman falls if she has signed it, as if it has somehow been tainted by her gender. “That’s just absolutely mind-blowing,” she says”

#art #the art market #women #gender pay gap #art and design #helen gorrill #women can't paint #recalculating art #bbc radio 4 #the guardian

[kahmeokiblog]

"Within the transgender sample, those who were assigned female at birth have significantly lower incomes and are more likely to work part-time than those assigned male at birth"

But remember guys, "transwomen with male privilege are not a thing"

#transgender #trans #pay gap #gender pay gap #feminism #gender inequality #genderqueer #nonbinary #transfem #transmasc #transandrophobia #transmisogyny #anti transmasculinity #afab #amab #Lgbt #trans pride #queer #queer community #male privilege

[justinssportscorner]

Gideon Taaffe and Charis Hoard at MMFA:

Instead of celebrating the rising influence of women’s basketball, right-wing media seized on the highly anticipated draft to attack the WNBA and dismiss the low wages of some of basketball’s biggest stars.  After a historic women’s NCAA tournament, the Women’s National Basketball Association draft drew substantial media attention both praising the rising influence of the league and criticizing the low wages of the league’s stars. Right-wing media chose to denigrate the sport and its players rather than engage with critiques of how women athletes are treated.

With the WNBA's popularity surging due to several college megastars such as Caitlin Clark being drafted, right-wing media launched unhinged sexist attacks against the league (and women's sports in general). These same people attacking the WNBA and women's sports launch attacks against trans women participating in women's sports under the purported guise of "saving women's sports."

#Women's Sports #Sexism #WNBA #Caitlin Clark #Matt Walsh #Clay Travis #Dan Dakich #Jason Whitlock #Tom Shillue #Blain Crain #Alex Berenson #Liz Wheeler #Outkick #FNC #The Daily Wire #Gender Pay Gap #Women's College Basketball #NCAAW

[mouth-almighty]

This Twitter bot is amazing.

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#TERF scum do not reblog #TERFS fuck off #TERFS dni #iwd2023 #international women's day #feminism #gender pay gap

[liberaljane]

Housework is real work. Pay up or shut up.

Colorful image that reads, 'housework is real work' with an iron, ironing board and button-up shirt. The bottom text reads, 'pay up or shut up.'

#art #feminism #feminist #housework #domestic labor #labor rights #women's rights #gender pay gap #gender inequality

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Elite, mostly male, thinkers remained convinced that men should be paid more than women, and the government passed the 1834 new Poor Law on that assumption:

It is clearly a waste of strength, a superfluous extravagance, (an economic blunder) to employ a powerful and costly machine to do work which can be as well done by a feebler and a cheaper one. Women and girls are less costly operatives than men . . . what they can do with equal efficiency it is therefore wasteful and foolish, economically considered, to set a man to do. By employing the cheaper labour, the article is supplied to the public at a smaller cost and therefore the demand for the article is increased.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quotes #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #elite #classism #sexism #1834 poor law #assumption #extravagance #machinery #pay gap #gender pay gap #supply and demand #exploitation

[indizombie]

One 28-year-old woman, who worked in HR, said she'd seen people who were forced to leave their jobs or who were passed over for promotions after taking maternity leave, which had been enough to convince her never to have a baby. Both men and women are entitled to a year's leave during the first eight years of their child's life. But in 2022, only 7% of new fathers used some of their leave, compared to 70% of new mothers. Korean women are the most highly educated of those in OECD countries, and yet the country has the worst gender pay gap and a higher-than-average proportion of women out of work compared to men. Researchers say this proves they are being presented with a trade-off - have a career or have a family. Increasingly, they are choosing a career.

Jean Mackenzie, ‘Why South Korean women aren't having babies’, BBC

#BBC #Jean Mackenzie #South Korea #gender pay gap #female unemployment

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

The Tin Men: But this is a great example of how giving equal rights to men, benefits women.

The "pay gap" is not experienced by women versus men, it's mothers versus fathers. Mothers are not paid the same as fathers, because mothers are at home, and fathers are at work. And fathers often don't want to be at work, they want to be at home, and mothers often want to be at work.

So the graph is insane. It's salary over time. And it's men and women coming up, as the same, and suddenly the mum comes down, the father keeps going, and it's because they've had a child. And when you've had a child, the father takes two weeks off, but goes back to work; keeps getting promoted, keeps earning more money, and the mother stops working, and may never return to work. And if she does, it's often part time, and she's not paid the same as a father.

And she shouldn't be, because she's working part time, and he's gone back to work. So the best way of closing the pay gap, is giving equal parental leave to fathers.

Host: Just if it was me, I would just say, give it to the family, let them split it however they like.

The Tin Men: Well, yeah, but I also... it's such a difficult conversation, because I'm constantly making asterisks here and there. I agree. There should be a shared amount of time, and then it's "use it or lose it." So he has to use it.

But I also want to add another asterisk, and be like: childbirth is a traumatic experience for women, and she needs to have additional medical leave to recover from that. So both parents get six months, she gets and additional one month, or whatever it should be, seven months for her, six months to him, non-transferable, "use it or lose it."

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It's remarkable how often the mythological "pay gap" is pushed by people who are self-described "anti-capitalists," yet don't think they sound like abject contradictory morons.

Ask your retired father or grandfather whether he wishes he'd worked more and earned more money, or worked less and spent more time with his family.

#The Tin Men #pay gap #gender pay gap #myth of the pay gap #pay gap myth #motherhood #fatherhood #religion is a mental illness

[postmariannizm]

Fuck, I love american wokeness in corporations

Homo sovieticus is leaving my body.

I'm at a seminar about gender pay gap and new UE directives that will come soon and I'm having an absolute blast.

#feminism #gender pay gap #wokeness

[aspecgirlies]

i'm sorry but the gender pay gap is the most absurd thing to ever exist in human society. why does it exist. work is work. what the Fuck

#laying here in the pitch black it's 9:57 p.m. and im just a little exhausted being #maddie speaks #gender pay gap #thoughts

[ginerva-mollyweasley]

LOVE TO HEAR IT 💪

#ecb #the hundred #women’s football #cricket #england cricket #england #feminism #gender pay gap #cricfam #cricketfandom #cricketslash

[unfug-bilder]

(C) Thomas Plaßmann

#gender pay gap #thomas plaßmann

[justinssportscorner]

Li Zhou at Vox:

Caitlin Clark, a college basketball phenom and the top pick at Monday’s WNBA draft, will make a staggeringly low salary in her rookie year compared to her NBA counterpart. Despite her record-breaking performance in the NCAA and the energy that she’s generated for the sport, Clark’s base salary will be $76,535 as a rookie. In the NBA, meanwhile, the first draft pick is expected to make roughly $10.5 million in base salary their first year.

Players like Clark, who was picked by the Indiana Fever Monday night after multiple blockbuster seasons as a point guard for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, and former Louisiana State University forward Angel Reese, who was signed by the Chicago Sky, have helped women’s college basketball achieve a landmark year. For the first time ever, the women’s final March Madness game, which drew as many as 24 million viewers, surpassed the viewership of the men’s final. “It’s been catapulted this year to a whole new level,” says University of Michigan sports management professor Ketra Armstrong. “People are tuning in to the WNBA draft that never had before.” The fresh attention for the WNBA draft, however, is also spotlighting the problems the league has had with pay equity. For years, the WNBA’s salaries have lagged the NBA’s by a massive margin. That’s due in part to the leagues’ differences in revenue and season lengths. But other factors, like differences in collective bargaining agreements and revenue-sharing, also play a big role. [...]

The pay-gap problem is bigger than any one player

Despite her record-breaking performance in the NCAA and the energy that she’s generated for the sport, Clark will earn less than 1 percent of what her male counterpart will make in her first year. She will be able to supplement her salary through endorsement and marketing deals, but even with those, her estimated earnings will be lower than the base salary of a first-round NBA pick. Clark isn’t alone. WNBA star Brittney Griner — who spent months jailed in Russia — spoke about the reason she played abroad in the offseason, and noted that a big part of it was to supplement her income: “I’ll say this ... the whole reason a lot of us go over is the pay gap,” she said at a press conference in April 2023. In 2023, a WNBA player made a $113,295 base salary on average, while an NBA player made an average base salary of $9.7 million. The NBA’s much larger revenue is part of the reason for this discrepancy: It takes in an estimated $10 billion annually, compared to the WNBA, which has been projected to bring in roughly $200 million. Its season is also about twice the length of the WNBA’s, including 82 games compared to 40 games. Those factors alone, however, don’t tell the full story.

It's a grotesque insult that WNBA stars (and potential stars) such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese, and Brittney Griner are appallingly underpaid compared to their male counterparts in the NBA.

The large gender pay gap between WNBA and NBA players is why WNBA players choose to play in overseas leagues during that league's offseason to supplement their income.

#WNBA #NBA #Gender Pay Gap #Income Inequality #WNBA Draft #2024 WNBA Draft #Caitlin Clark #Angel Reese #Women's Sports #Basketball

[bitangaprinceza]

The day women shut down iceland

#i was hyped for this one #mras always talk about how the world would fall apart without men and women are clueless #feminism #iceland #gender pay gap #Youtube

[guilty-feminist]

#guilty feminist #the guilty feminist #feminism #feminist #women’s rights #deborah frances white #human rights #woman’s rights #uk politics #uk news #gender pay gap #women in work #equal pay