Women: do you make ##Question_Title##.75 to every dollar a man makes?

Question

Feminists claim that is the average gap for "doing the exact same job."

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Why on earth do you put up with being paid 25% less than the men doing your same job? Why not sue, call the NY Times, go to HR, something?

Answer 1

I do make less than men in my department doing the exact same thing.  I came from a lower level job than they did, and even though I now know as much as they do, and do the same quality work, and receive the same raises as they do, because I started further back my salary is based on this.  Some of the women I work with have gone through the same thing, and some are paid as well as the guys depending on where they came from.  

But the promotions go to the men, and we're not happy about it.  The department managers always have "good" reasons for what they did.  We know because we've been to HR.  

I put up with it because I like what I do, I work for an excellent company, and I still make a $h!tload of a salary compared to most people.

I don't complain about the female "pay gap."  I understand it perfectly.

ETA:  I'm not claiming it's discrimination.  But I'm not a junior anything, I've been there for 11 years and I'm training the young'uns.

Answer 2

I make more than most guys I know, but that definitely isn't true for the majority of women.

Answer 3

The 'sexist' wage gap is just another example of where feminists point blank refuse to be rational. They would much rather shout their silly heads off about sexism and The Patriarchy than just get on with their life like the rest of us.

One more time feminists, here are government statistics clearly stating the reason that there is a wage gap:

"Women's weekly earnings, including overtime, were lower than men's. This was partly because they worked fewer paid hours per week. ...

Although median hourly pay provides a useful comparison between the earnings of men and women, it does not necessarily indicate differences in rates of pay for comparable jobs. Pay medians are affected by the different work patterns of men and women, such as the proportions in different occupations and their length of time in jobs".

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget....

Less work = less pay.

Skilled job = higher pay.

Really complicated, right feminists?

Answer 4

Because not everyone has money for the retaining fee, duh.

Lawyers don't work for free.

Is that the American answer to everything? "Sue"?  Where did you learn this BS?  From wealthy lawyers advertising "sue, sue, sue, please folks, I have a yacht to pay off"?

That's just ridiculous, and not a solution for anything.

*Kid, you need to get out into the real world.  Go to HR?  What are they going to do?  Tell your boss and have you fired as a troublemaker?  And what if your boss *IS* HR?

Contact the government?  What?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Get real.

Answer 5

You can stick your rat race, I'm not becoming a part of it.