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As they say in 12 step groups:
Feelings are not facts.
Sexual capital doesn't give women the advantage. It seems to be the only thing that gives women a leg up so to speak and women are losing completely. Feminists don't care much about child custody. They want men to do half the child care. If they did, maybe they'd get custody.
It doesn't matter how much education women have. It doesn't pay off because of discrimination in the workplace.
You have to be kidding about domestic violence and rape. Women don't even report to police because they don't help and courts mostly blame women for rape.
Cultural perceptions are meaningless if it doesn't translate to equal representation, legal rights, power and economics.
And women are definitely disadvantaged in the workplace as all your articles state. The only respectable source of information in your articles was Heidi Hartmann and she said women are discriminated against in the workplace:
Factors may include: more women choose lower-paying professions than men; they move in and out of the workforce more frequently; and they work fewer paid hours on average.Why that's the case may have to do in part with the fact that women are still society's primary caregivers, that some higher-paying professions require either too much time away from home or are still less hospitable to women than they should be.
However, while those factors account for a good portion of the wage gap, actual pay discrimination likely accounts for the balance, experts say.
Hartmann believes discrimination accounts for between 25 percent and 33 percent of the wage gap. Compensation specialist Gary Thornton, a principal in the HR management consulting firm Thornton & Associates, figures at least 10 percent to 15 percent does.
Whatever the breakout, there certainly are numerous studies that show discrimination -- however unconscious -- still exists. For instance:
* A recent Cornell study found that female job applicants with children would be less likely to get hired, and if they do, would be paid a lower salary than other candidates, male and female. By contrast, male applicants with children would be offered a higher salary than non-fathers and other mothers.
* A recent Carnegie Mellon study found that female job applicants who tried to negotiate a higher salary were less likely to be hired by male managers, while male applicants were not.
