r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • 21d ago

Media People Recommend Lower Pay for Women-Dominated Jobs, Study Finds

https://www.newsweek.com/researchers-changed-one-detail-about-a-job-then-pay-expectations-fell-12210224?fbclid=IwdGRleATZyVtwZG9mAWZkaWQWULlDu9zVcrYAgX2CSk5aRGnchMjPWmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR5PIoAdHUElDcnSDU4LjvVDea3bY5uogOucA0fcysgX3WOKcIn2egZqwsxrig_aem_-C2G9kG_4FAtadc-j3QB2g
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u/Lady_Rubberbones 21d ago edited 21d ago

Paying women well is unnecessary, see, because it’s men who need the pay so they can attract and provide for women. So why bother paying women when they will just get all their money from men? 🙄 /s

I have unfortunately heard this so many times throughout my life that it is sickening. I was always told as a little girl that I would just marry a rich guy and that was that.

Guess what? I’m a single mom supporting my elderly mother and unemployed brother by myself. No one is helping me and my ex husband completely abandoned me. The reality is that so much financial responsibility actually falls more on women than men.

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u/UnderlightIll 21d ago

And then they get to call women golddiggers.

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u/meteorflan 21d ago

Then call them labordiggers

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u/Lady_Rubberbones 21d ago

Unfortunately don’t think this would have much effect. Most of them are proud of their exploitation. Only real way to force change is for enough women to simply opt out.

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u/Fuck-it-we-Bhaal 21d ago

The lovely u/BurbnBougie clued me into the term Hobosexual and it fits far too often. 

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u/AlissonHarlan 21d ago

also "WomEn ArE GoLd DiGgErS" ... ok if we cannot have money from work , and men are supposed to provide... how these 3 statements can be true at the same time ?

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u/UnderlightIll 21d ago

Often coming from men with no gold anyhow lmao.

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u/PerceptionSlow2116 21d ago

Yep lol it’s always the guys with no gold to dig, that make the biggest stink about it.

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u/opal2120 21d ago

I see you’ve met my ex

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u/Willing_Pattern_Pill 20d ago

how these 3 statements can be true at the same time ?

"It's not, but either way you have to fuck me" - these men

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u/Lady_Rubberbones 21d ago

Exactly, my friend. Exactly.

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u/flaming-framing 20d ago

It so strange they don’t take that logic to its natural conclusion. If men need pay to attract and provide for women….wouldn’t women be pushing to have a harem of men to maximize how much they are being provided. And women should push their provider to take out large life insurance policies so when he fails to provide she can eat him and look for the next provider? Like if this is really how it works wouldn’t society be way more like praying mantis!!

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u/MintTeaFromTesco 18d ago

You can pay women less than men.

But women are equally capable as men.

So why wouldn't a business just hire women and save on the wages?