WSJ Charts the wage gap

[DurdenParticipant 1051]

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/14/the-gender-wage-gap-in-eight-charts/

I don’t read WSJ as much as I used to. There are simply better sites. But it’s  not shocking that woman demand more for working less. Apparently in Wyoming it will take 144 years to “bridge” the gap.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything

[RedHeadedStrangerParticipant 204]

No surprise about Wyoming.  It’s a fossil fuel based economy.  The higher paying jobs require field work, railroad work, or mine work.  I work as a petroleum engineer, I have had many opportunities to move into the office from the field.  Why the hell would I want to do that?  I make 3x the money working on the rigs than I would in the office.  That is because it is a dangerous environment wherein I must live on location for periods up to 3 months without a day off (the average for me is 3-5weeks).  Not many women lining up to take my job.  When I work overseas, I do 54 day hitches – in the f~~~ing jungle.  Not many women want to live in a f~~~ing tent, check for snakes, scorpions, spiders, brave the malaria infected swamps, bathe in brown water, eat disgusting food, etc.  Again, while women are allowed, none apply.  No big surprise there.

Furthermore, the offices are dominated by women working in middle management.  Why are the company leaders predominately male?  Because you have to know what the f~~~ you are talking about, and that requires field experience.  So a few men who pay their dues, choose to take the office job toward the end of their careers.  Golf, London broil for lunch, hunting expeditions to wine and dine prospective clients.  Sounds great, right?  Well, it used to be great.  ‘Till women f~~~ed it all up.  Now the office is a goddamned mine field, in which one small mis-step will cost you your career.  NoF~~~ingThanx.  On the rigs, it is still a man’s world,  where we are free to be men.  The office is a women’s world, where we have to toe the PC line or lose our jobs.  F~~~ them, they can have the 40k job, work 20 years to make 80k.  I will stay on the rigs, where I can be myself, make 200k, and enjoy my life without having to constantly self-monitor for fear of the high-heeled jack boot of feminazi thought police coming down on my b~~~~.

When I first started, on the rare occasion that a woman would come to location (sales-calls, house-keeping, safety inspections, etc.) the guys would go out of their way to talk to her.  I mean hell, when it has been 3 weeks since you have seen t~~~, you are somewhat compelled to go talk to them.  Not anymore.  We run and hide from them, because we have learned the hard way that the fastest way to lose your job is to say the wrong thing within ear-shot of a woman.

Like a wise man once said: Bed. Made. Lie.  I would only add: C~~~.

 

[BeerParticipant 11832]

I figured from the first graph this article was bulls~~~.  Notice…they don’t say anything about hourly compensation…its all about weekly pay.  Well s~~~, I think we’ve all seen at jobs we’ve had, the average guy tends to work more overtime than the average woman…is it really that much of a no brainer men in the same fields as women tend to make more?

‘Or like Red-Headed-Stranger said…at least compare apples to apples.  I work for a utility company and the hands on jobs are still dominated by males.  They aren’t dominated by males because that’s all the company hires…it flat out says on their website they encourage women and minorities to apply, and they give them preference in the hiring process, its just a lot of women don’t want the job or don’t last long once they get it.  Of course the hands on jobs are going to pay more though.  If I could make the same money for sitting in an air conditioned office all day vs crawling around steam lines in a 100+ degree building, or run the risk of picking up radiation in the field, why the f~~~ would I not be sitting in the office?  Women doing my job get the same hourly pay as a man with the same qualifications, training, and work ethic…if they want to compare a broad sector they should break it down more or they really aren’t proving anything.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

The “Wage Gap” is a lie.

The truth is the Productivity Gap.

Whenever you hear someone say “Wage Gap”, correct their vocabulary. Women produce less, so women get paid less. If women want to be paid the same they should close their productivity gap.

[AntaresParticipant 208]

What I’ve seen agrees with what Red says. Of the states in the top of those list I have experience with (Wyoming, North Dakota, and Alaska), it’s simply a matter of industry pay differences, which are skewed to male oriented jobs in those states. They keep moving this bulls~~~ metric of pay gap around to mean different things. Wasn’t it first supposed to be about women being payed less for doing the SAME JOB? When they couldn’t substantiate that bulls~~~ claim they have to keep messing with statistics.

I grew up in a small town where a job at the mine meant awesome pay. Jobs in town where things like teachers, gas station attendants, bank tellers and that sort of thing. The best job in town wasn’t even half the pay of a regular job at the mine. Women in Wyoming don’t have to wait 144 years to bridge the gap. They just have to do as much physically demanding work as a man in an occupation which will very likely get them physically injured or maybe killed. Or a woman could just marry a guy who had that kind of job. Gee, I wonder which she’d choose.

Price is what you pay, value is what you get. -- Ben Graham

[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

There is no wage gap. In cases where they falsely determined a wage gap the solution was to lower the men’s pay, not raise the women’s.

This is what employers love. Employees racing themselves to the bottom of the pay scale.

This was strickly democrat feminist territory. The WSJ was always against the concept.

Now, I guess the republitards are going to try to buy some votes by having conservatives out lie about the wage gap more than the democrits.

The way your typical female thinks: Wage gap what ever. You owe me for having kids. It will take 100 million years for all the things you owe me to be given me because I gave you the most precious thing only god can create…children.

Tell it to the chipmonks, they reproduce without killing their mate.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

Antares wrote:

Gee, I wonder which she’d choose.

She would choose a good 10-15 years of riding the c~~~ carousel hard as possible while working a low paying job, followed by a lifetime of earning a low wage and not being able to find a guy to marry her.

[BeerParticipant 11832]

Puffin Stuff wrote:

The way your typical female thinks: Wage gap what ever. You owe me for having kids. It will take 100 million years for all the things you owe me to be given me because I gave you the most precious thing only god can create…children.

Yet when more men aspired to be the sole bread winner for the family so that a woman could be rewarded for having his children by being able to stay home and raise her children, they complained about that as well.

[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

Fried icy, Beer, they want fried ice.

They are an unquenchable pit of need and emptiness that can never be filled. A chasm of jealousy, self pity and vicousness first belied by veiled threats erupting into a crater that can only be filled by more, more and more.

They are, in a word, Empty.

No wonder they complain all the time. Sucks to be them.

#icethemout; Remember Thomas Ball. He died for your children.

[jack reacherParticipant 751]

HR, I think you are on to something. C~~~ is some type of vacuum, that always sucks in. Okay, minus the occasional oozing and bloody discharge. Let me work on that analogy a little further, from a distance of course.

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