If women out there think they are worth the exact same pay as a man-—go apply for a UPS truck driving job, delivering packages.
When you have put in a couple of years doing that, you MIGHT be doing equal work.
There are many times I got pissed off watching women underperform, while I did the heavy work, from my youth up through my retirement. If they can't do the work, they should be paid less than men or simply get kicked off the job.
For instance, while I was in the IT profession as a senior engineer I had to scope out electrical requirements for all the equipment going in arrays of cabinets, install equipment cabinets and computer components, pull wiring under the floor between cabinet arrays and such. While doing so, another woman engineer who had been given the same title as mine but did practically nothing (given the title because a boss elsewhere was her husband), would interrupt me and ask me to set up a display monitor, keyboard and mouse on a rolling cart for one of the computer servers in another rack. Told her to do it herself, she said she didn't know how. Give me a break, even the lowest techs getting 1/3rd the pay could do that. But I didn't want to anger her boss husband.
Many other similar situations happened with other female co-workers. They got the perks without doing any heavy lifting, and relied on same-pay co-workers to do their work for them. Even if they put in a couple years, they still can't perform.
If women out there think they are worth the exact same pay as a man-—go apply for a UPS truck driving job, delivering packages.
When you have put in a couple of years doing that, you MIGHT be doing equal work.
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This is a valid argument? Silly.
I own a bread route. Try getting up at 2am and going to a depot that is over 100 degrees in the summer. When you get there you can spend 2 to 2.5 hours in the heat pulling your order. My average load is between 1200 -1500 pieces per day.
When my order is done, I get to load stacks of bread that are around 6 feet high into my trailer, after I unload the empty stacks from the day before.
After that is done, I get to start my deliveries by dragging those stacks across the parking lot into the stores, and unstacking them piece by piece so I can get checked in and paid. The easy part is putting everything on the shelves.
So, don’t tell me about hard or equal work. There are plenty of woman that do harder work than a UPS or Fed Ex driver, and they manage to do it without having the strength of a man.
BTW, I’m a pretty small woman, 5’4, 110 lbs, so it is much harder physically for me than any man doing the same job. I just work around my limitations. For instance, I can’t stack my bread 8 feet high like the men do, but that makes more stacks for me to load and unload.