officialjanetweiss:

mattykinsel:

I’ve read that the wage gap is a debunked myth, and that the reason is because women choose different positions than men and different vocations in life, whether it be alternate careers or education etc, and it’s just coincidentally less money in those jobs. And that they just don’t work as much as men so they end up making less money. Is this true? Could someone maybe help debunk this? I’ve seen a lot of evidence etc from both sides and idk. Thanks so much :)

Well i think the part about women and men getting different jobs has to do w gender roles and such. Like even when kids are very very young they’re presented with either toys for boys or toys for girls. And most of those toys are based on jobs these kids may have in the future. Construction, cooking/baking, fashion, teaching, science, athletics, medicine, childcare, performing, mechanics etc are all jobs that any kid can aspire to have but are oftentimes represented as only being for one gender or the other. There’s a pretty good chance that a kid will grow up to choose a career based on what they’ve grown up seeing other people of their gender doing. So when women are set on this one specific path that they, since childhood, believe is their only choice, and men are lead to another path that happens to pay them far more..is that a coincidence? I don’t think so.

And i vaguely recall Mr. King saying at the beginning of the semester that a lot of apprenticeships/internships/somethingships for jobs that are associated with women (teacher, secretary) will be unpaid. That sucks.

So yeah from what i understand the wage gap is real and this is just one messed up aspect of it.