[Tokra]

I’m an employer. Multiple companies in multiple states nationwide. I’ve never once even considered a lower pay scale for women, and most of the staff in the companies are in fact female, as I sit and think about this. I’ve never seen a situation where a woman isn’t paid the same money for the same job as a male, I only read about it in articles like this. Which causes me to wonder if its real, or just PC coming out.

These studies are absolute bunk. They lump ALL working men and ALL working women together and come up with their figures.

The fact that a woman working part-time at a day care center making $8 an hour compared with a male engineer making $50 an hour has a bit to do with the wage difference.

The folks who bring us these studies try to overcome that by saying that jobs are "comparable worth". In other words - the file clerk making $30,000 a year is "just as valuable" as the engineer making $90,000 a year.

If you look at SPECIFIC jobs - there is no discrepancy in wages.

Where I work - jobs are paid according to the job classification and level. A person's gender has absolutely nothing to do with it. There aren't separate pay scales for men and women.

If the women gravitate towards the lower paying jobs and the men tend to take the higher paying jobs - so be it. It has nothing to do with wage discrimination. It has everything to do with choices.

[Badeye]

“It has everything to do with choices.”

Yep.

The only females that work with us that have seen a decrease in pay are those that left, and then came back, for a variety of reasons...most of which you detailed in your post to me.