Well done for you
But what about outside of your highly skilled bubble? A 25% pay disparity can't all be to do with child-induced lack of ambition, surely?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:43, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

NO!
She doesn't know anybody paid less than her and she doesn't know any women paid less than men for the same job. Therefore it DOES NOT HAPPEN.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:44, Reply)

i wasn't born into the bubble though
i won a scholarship when i was 9 that paid for all my education, and then worked my arse off to get good enough grades to do what i do now.

there must be a disparity, as it seems to be a well-established fact, but it is not something that i've ever come across in practice. the only thing i have come across in real life is the fact that there are very few female partners in law, accountancy etc, primarily because a large number of them give up their careers when they have a family. a fact which everyone recognises tacitly, openly says "we must fix this", but realistically can't because you can't work the sort of hours that i work (eg 2am last night, will be post midnight tonight) if you have kids - it's not fair on them.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:49, Reply)

Your argument is based on highly skilled careers
What about other careers? What about the fact that women are routinely discriminated against before their employment is even commenced? What about discrimination in the law, in having interests represented or anything else like that?
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:51, Reply)

This reads as a militant lesbians post
USE SOME FUCKING DEODORANT
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)

I can't imagine AA really enjoyed getting close to her
unkempt pubic hair.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:54, Reply)

Deeply matted pubic hair
Level 10 Didactic Wiccan stage has been attained !1!!
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:56, Reply)

Hahah

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:58, Reply)

MOUSTACHES DON'T SUIT WOMEN OF ANY AGE

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:54, Reply)

that's my point
i can ONLY talk about those careers. it's all i know about. i can tell you why there are very few women at the top in those careers, and i have done. more girls go into law than boys. more trainees are female than boys. but the partnership ratio is about 20:80 female:male. because the women leave the career and don't come back.

i can't talk about other careers because apart from a student stint behind the bar, i've never been involved in them.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:55, Reply)

You are now arguing that you can make no kind of comment on the original point
because you know nothing about it?

We know that, it's quite clear from your posts, what we we're trying to point out is that outside of your little bubble of perfectly equal pay, there are lots of women who are paid less for doing the same job.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:01, Reply)

ok
so what are YOU doing about it?

posting on an internet forum but carrying on taking more pay than a woman anyway?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:06, Reply)

I also work in a company which pays women and men equally
for doing the same job.

This started because I pointed out that SATC was profoundly offensive against women, and I will stand by that comment.

I never said you ought to be ought marching in the defence of equal pay, but I would like to think someone as well educated as you would have been at least aware of the problem, as I am.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)

so you are aware of it
you're just happily doing nothing about it? shame on you, al...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)

*bangs head on desk and cries*
Can I see your tits now?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:18, Reply)

i think you're just about the only guy on here who hasn't
in all fairness
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:21, Reply)

I hate being a minority.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:27, Reply)

life is tough as a minority
i think we agree on that
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)

No women work in my industry
I'm more equal than you.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)

I can tell you a fair bit about gender discrimination in the fucking law.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 15:59, Reply)

Did I say anything about the discrimination in the law always being anti-women?

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)

It was implied and don't try and deny it.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:05, Reply)

Then may I clarify by amending my point to "in the criminal law"?

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:07, Reply)

Best stick to pullin pints love
Remember the large holes in your general knowledge we were on about earlier...
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)

Probably wouldn't apply to this
Given that I've studied law, and have actually specifically studied gender discrimination in both family law and criminal law in order to contrast the two.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:20, Reply)

Get you !!1! You've studied law, brilliant, have a biscuit, no have two.
I studied GCSE maths, but that don't make me a mathmatician.
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:22, Reply)

I'm not surprised
Given that you have no idea how large a hole would have to be in order to drive a bus through. You probably should avoid driving buses too.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:24, Reply)

Well yeah the hole would generally be two and half meters being a standard bus width, in your case we'll go for a doubledecker height

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)

But Monty
what about women really only being good for sewing and playing with kittens?

What about THAT? These lesbians are getting me down.
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)

i'm allergic to cats
where does that leave me?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:09, Reply)

Sewing.
You see, isn't it so much easier when you let us men do your thinking for you?
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)

Real lesbians are never like the ones on the films.
It's false fucking advertising.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)

I've seen real lesbians.
*shudders*
( Kroney, Thu 3 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)