Maternity leave: Is it really necessary?

[Yeekim]

"Well, they made their own choices" is not a satisfactory response towards pay disparity arising from gender-driven differences in occupational choices.

Might be. Or not. Fwiw, women also tend to live longer than men and also report higher happiness figures. A comparison between these three trends could prove interesting.

Personally, I don't necessarily see it as a problem of women getting shorter and of the stick. Rather, society as a whole might lose out when certain professions are being overly dominated by only one gender.

And an even more interesting question is why we tolerate such pay disparities between the different kinds of occupations in the first place.

If pay disparities between different kinds of occupations were only 20%, I´d argue we have pretty much reached communism.

 

[aelf]

Might be. Or not. Fwiw, women also tend to live longer than men and also report higher happiness figures. A comparison between these three trends could prove interesting.

I'm not sure what your point is.

Personally, I don't necessarily see it as a problem of women getting shorter and of the stick. Rather, society as a whole might lose out when certain professions are being overly dominated by only one gender.

I don't see why those problems are mutually exclusive.

If pay disparities between different kinds of occupations were only 20%, I´d argue we have pretty much reached communism.

Maybe only if the maximum pay disparity between occupations were 20%.

 

[civ_king]

Might be. Or not. Fwiw, women also tend to live longer than men and also report higher happiness figures. A comparison between these three trends could prove interesting.

Personally, I don't necessarily see it as a problem of women getting shorter and of the stick. Rather, society as a whole might lose out when certain professions are being overly dominated by only one gender.


If pay disparities between different kinds of occupations were only 20%, I´d argue we have pretty much reached communism.

In the 1970s women reported being happier than men, since then men have gotten happier while women have gotten less happy leading to the fact that now men are happier than women. Note, this is only in the US.

 

[wolfigor]

The more interesting question is why men and women gravitate towards such different paths in our society.

That was what I meant with my question... we were thinking in the same directly even if we didn't get it immediately.
As you may have noticed I don't even try to answer the question, just point out that the differentiation in choice of career starts rather early (at school/university).
Why that happens is something really interesting to know, even if I do think it would be a rather complex answer.

PS: And an even more interesting question is why we tolerate such pay disparities between the different kinds of occupations in the first place.

This is good material for a new thread, don't you think so?

 

[aelf]

That was what I meant with my question... we were thinking in the same directly even if we didn't get it immediately.

Sure, I thought that was a possibility. My reply was not necessarily directed just at you. There are people who cite what you cited for a different reason, and it was simply convenient to use your post to make my point anyway.