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1. jankot+62[view] [source] 2018-02-15 09:09:17
>>andren+(OP)
From my experience location dependence is the greatest obstacle for women to join high earning STEM jobs. With paygap women find it more difficult to live in expensive cities. Also remote work allows more life balance for care givers (who are mostly women).

It should be seen as sexism, if company does not offer remote jobs.

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2. OscarC+t3[view] [source] 2018-02-15 09:34:34
>>jankot+62
Your first two sentences seem like a circular argument. Women can't get the high paying jobs because they don't live in the right places, they can't live in the right places because they can't get the high paying jobs.
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3. jankot+e4[view] [source] 2018-02-15 09:48:52
>>OscarC+t3
Not really. If woman gets high paying job, she makes less money for the same work.

Also women have more expenses than men (ping tax, daycare...). Big cities are unaffordable even at the same salary.

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4. gambit+z4[view] [source] 2018-02-15 09:57:21
>>jankot+e4
>>Also women have more expenses than men (ping tax, daycare...).

What's ping tax?

How is daycare more expensive for women? Surely, a man raising a child on their own will pay exactly the same amount of money for daycare? In a normal case, where partners raise children together, they surely pay for daycare from a shared budget, not just from the woman's salary(that would be just bizarre).

>> If woman gets high paying job, she makes less money for the same work.

The counter argument to this is that if this was true, companies would only hire women, since apparently they do the same work for less money!

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5. psyc+B5[view] [source] 2018-02-15 10:12:00
>>gambit+z4
"Pink tax": the idea that goods marketed to women are priced higher than equivalents marketed to men.

https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+tax

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6. megama+kf[view] [source] 2018-02-15 12:41:37
>>psyc+B5
I'm not entirely sure that the same goods marketed at women as men are meaningfully more expensive for one group or the other. But it is undeniable that there are entire classes of products marketed and produced for female audiences and considered essential that males can disregard completely. One easy example is health and beauty products, and another fashion and accessories.

For example, my shower routine involves a bar of Ivory soap and basic shampoo. For my sister, my mother, my female friends and romantic interests, add conditioners, body washes, face scrubs, and all the associated paraphernalia, which easily triples the cost in dollars, not to mention time and hot water.

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