Also women have more expenses than men (ping tax, daycare...). Big cities are unaffordable even at the same salary.
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!
Google that...
> How is daycare more expensive for women? Surely, a man raising a child on their own will pay exactly the same amount
Most primary care givers are women. Women are hurt by that more.
> In a normal case
Single mother is normal case. Look at stats and trends.
I can't find anything specific to women.
In other words, we have a sexism problem.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2016/cb16-192...
"The Majority of Children Live With Two Parents, Census Bureau Reports"
Maybe I should have said "usual" not "normal" - being a single mother is a normal thing. But so is being a single dad. Claiming that women are somehow worse off because they spend more on childcare is completely bizarre.
>>Google that...
Or you could just tell me - I googled it and there's absolutely nothing that relates to women, several pages of results on google are just taking about filing my taxes with HMRC when I search for ping tax.
>>Most primary care givers are women. Women are hurt by that more.
And? What's the argument here? You were saying that women are paid less for the same work(something which you completely ignored in my reply) and that they have more expenses than men(I would say a subset of people who are raising children on their own have more expenses than people who don't. They don't have more expenses because they are women, they have more expenses because of the choices they made).
The only case where I agree is that stupidly, UK government applies extra tax to sanitary items for women, while cosmetics for men do not have such tax. That is stupid, but that's a literal tax chosen by the government.
> women are paid less for the same work
Gender pay gap is generally accepted fact.
> more expenses because they are women, they have more expenses because of the choices they made)
Not sure I understand. Family is not really a choice. And choice/not choice is irrelevant in argument. Goal is to get more women into STEM, one can not forbid people to have a children.
Is it? I'm pretty sure it was debunked time after time after time, with studies basically finding that women work fewer hours(by choice) and even when presented with an opportunity to advance to a higher, more stressful position, they decline more often than men do. Women tend not to take the well paying, but risky jobs that men take, skewing the proportions further. On the other hand, men account for nearly all workplace deaths in the civilized world - but it looks like they are rewarded for taking those risks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/04/12/dont-buy...
>> Family is not really a choice.
Having a choice whether to have or not have children is a generally accepted fact, at least in 1st world countries.
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.
It's just normal VAT, the issue is that many "necessary" products don't have VAT on them, but tampons or pads do, even though they are a biological necessity.
Also, if we're talking about less common alternatives, women can use menstrual cups instead of tampons and pads.
It's like women-day-off when they're on their period. On one hand, it'd be nice and makes sense. On the other hand, that sex-based discrimination.
Meanwhile over there we got flat VAT for everything. No tampon tax issues! :) Paying extra 21% for basic food sucks though.
And since we are more closely related to asian happenings, it decided to not correct it due to the misspelling being an asian name :P