Does anyone have solutions to the pay gap between gender?

Question

the current laws have worked up to a point but anyone has suggestions how to close the pay gap between gender. It happens with woman and men. But more likely with woman and minorities.

Answer 1

Employers should have to commit to a salary offer before knowing the identity of the applicant.  For example:  An employer can review a resume or application without knowing the applicant's name, race, age, etc., then base the salary offer entirely on the applicant's qualifications.  They should be bound to make that salary offer (should they decide to extend an offer) after meeting with the applicant.

Answer 2

This is a slander.

Answer 3

yeah. GET MARRIED

Answer 4

Dianna P is dead-on with her suggestion of blind hiring practices.  Base hiring on achievements and education.  

...but does that go far enough?  What about moving up through the workforce once you've been hired?  Women might still face discrimination here.  Over time the blind hiring could ostensibly "level out" this advantage, but until then?

My suggestion:

Everybody wears spacesuits and gets a number for a name.

That way nobody knows who you are, what you look like, your voice could be disguised through radio filters, etc.  "Spacesuit #413" could get the promotions and raises for their hard work instead of "Old White Guy from Pennsylvania named John Smith."

Answer 5

Go talk to the local politician/congressman about it. It is ridiculous.

Answer 6

yeah.. my solution is, uh, pay them equally

xD

Answer 7

The answer is to vote with your feet.  If you dont feel you are being adequately compensated for your labor, go work for your employers competition.  If you can do a job better than the man or woman in the next office, you should have right to a higher rate of compensation.  That relationship between employer and employee should be just that.  Any time an outside entity gets involved with that dynamic it reduces productivity. The beauty of the free market is that the employer has the right to offer any compensation they want, and the employee has the right to demand any compensation they want.  The point where these two lines intersect is the market value of the particular service.

Lets look at some examples;

A job as a handler for a package delivery company would generally favor males because of the physical requirements.

A job as a computer technician is more neutral in terms of merit requirments.

A job as a massage therapist would pay better for a woman as most, men and women are more comfortable paying a woman for that particular service.

Recently women have even begun showing up as race car drivers.  A perfect example of free market enterprise getting the best person available based on skill not gender.

In closing I will re-state my point.  Do what you are good at and do it better than the next person.  If you don't get what you feel you have coming to you, sell your skills to the highest bidder