financeguy said:
I think it's you that's selectively reading the article, as you forgot to read this bit:-
“Citified college-women are more likely to be nonmarried and childless, compared with their suburban sisters, so they can and do devote themselves to their careers,” said Andrew Hacker, a Queens College sociologist and the author of “Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Men and Women.”
Because women with a husband find it much harder to get the same position, and equal pay, because then the danger of this woman becoming pregnant is much higher.
What's wrong with a person devoting her life to her career anyways? Is it mandatory to start a family?
In Germany, for example, women still just earn 60-80 per cent of what a man gets, and a few weeks ago a study of the European Union stated that if the wage increases developed as they have so far, it would take 187 years before wages/salaries are equal. Some countries are more developed in wage equality, others less.
The population of most countries in the world is that around 60 per cent are women, 40 per cent are men. Bias?
At least of Germany I know that more girls are graduating with an A-levels exam than men, hence more are starting university or polytechnics. Bias? More girls/women are deciding to study to become teachers than boys/men. Bias?
Are you asking for forcing more men to become teachers so that it is 50/50? Is that so important?
So should also more men become secretaries or cleaning staff to enhance gender equality? Or more women working as carpenters or construction worker to enhance gender equality?
Maybe some women are doing a better job than there male counterparts, hence getting a better pay. Maybe they are more committed because they want to, or they know that they have to be double as good as men to be respected.
And maybe they have a husband, or even children, and are the main bread-earner in the family.
Yes, these are the modern times, and we as men have to let this "golden age" go.
“New York is an achievement-based city, and achievement here is based on how well you use your brain, not what you do with your back,” said Mitchell L. Moss