Posted on 10/13/2024 6:43:48 AM PDT by Salman
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Although states are taking strides to increase base pay for workers, it is still not enough. In California, the living wage for an adult with no children is $27.32 and is $61.58 for an adult with two children. Further, the value of the federal wage is at its lowest point since 1956, although businesses are within the financial means to pay significantly more. These drastically low wages have critical effects on equality in the U.S., with women being considerably overrepresented in low-wage jobs. Not only will increasing the minimum wage help ensure all workers earn a living wage, but it will also narrow the gender wage gap.
In the U.S., women make up 64.1% of employers working in the 40 lowest paying jobs. Also called occupational segregation, the overrepresentation of women in certain types of jobs is the single largest factor for the gender pay gap, as jobs held predominately by women are undervalued and undercompensated. Careers that are predominantly female often pay much less than predominantly male careers, even if the value of labor is the same. Systemic sexism within the U.S. prevents “women’s work” from being recognized for its true value and labor, historically leading to employers paying lower wages for these careers.
Occupational segregation can be attributed to the fact that women – especially women of color – are forced out of male-dominated occupations and are prevented from joining all together. First, gender bias and stereotypes can limit the experience that young girls gain, such as being discouraged from joining STEM clubs and training associations that would build the skills needed for male-dominated careers. Second, women face limited access to networks and mentorships, facing greater barriers in establishing professional connections and thus, not receiving the same career opportunities as men.
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Why not $100 per hour no matter how low skilled you are?? I mean, come on, man!!
Yes and get $20.00 an hour to say want fries with that.
Entry level jobs have low pay for a reason low skills makes them learn more to be useful.
Only because they don't think they could get it just now.
Really, we absolutely, positively cannot make this stuff up. “They” really are that bad.
The beauty of your employee changing into a woman is you get to cut his pay evidently.
Of course none of these ignorant A=Holes can grasp the concept that if you raise the minimum wage prices go up across the board and taxes increase on those workers too, so there is really very little upward movement. Then there is the economic damage to everyone else who doesn’t get an increase in pay but gets hammered by the increased costs of food, shelter, maintenance/repair, etc...........Unless your an illegal, then your good to go because the hard pressed taxpayers will be forced to maintain your free to you lifestyle.
Socialists, can’t live with them, can’t shoot them.
This is yet another communist idea.
Ideally, if you raise minimum wage to stratospheric heights, we all will be paid the same. McDonald floor sweeper and Surgeon, the same. That what Marx taught.
But in reality, there would be another pay scale = $0!
Most people will loose their jobs and there would be communistic chaos, people starving, nothing in shops (if you find a shop) etc.
Like in every country which tried communism.
The State can vanquish any reality - well anyway they would like to make it appear so.
“Drastically low wages”? $61 an hour is twice what I made as a technical writer for a defense contractor!
Union wages are indexed off the minimum wage.
My DW and (adult) daughters have succeeded quite nicely, thanks to initiative, hard work, and not giving in to feminist-instructed self pity.
Economic stupidity.
Lowering the “wage gap” by replacing all the low paid Americans with off the books illegal aliens.
A living wage is 61.58, which comes out to ~128K annually? Where does this author come up with this? Since the average wage in CA as of 2022 was around 89K and the median around 90K, does this mean that the majority of Californians can't afford to live?
First, gender bias and stereotypes can limit the experience that young girls gain, such as being discouraged from joining STEM clubs and training associations that would build the skills needed for male-dominated careers. Second, women face limited access to networks and mentorships, facing greater barriers in establishing professional connections and thus, not receiving the same career opportunities as men.
Feminists who don't have the aptitude for STEM subjects love this kind of claim. Maybe if they would have pursued degrees in STEM fields instead of sociology, they would have witnessed just how far people in STEM careers go to recruit girls and women into STEM fields. I recall reading about how an English mathematician tried to popularize a woman Italian mathematician in order to interest more girls in studying mathematics... in the 1700s. I had an argument with a feminist once who tried to tell me that women are systematically excluded from STEM programs, and she would not be swayed even when I explained that half the students in my PhD program were women. I guess this toxic feminist narrative helps to keep alive the notion that women are nothing but helpless victims. Which really isn't helpful for women who want to be perceived as rational mature adults.
No. In a mostly-free market, they’re paid exactly what they’re worth, or else they wouldn’t be working there.
The real problems come about when you state a random minimum number to pay someone: then employees become overvalued and overcompensated while underperforming.
I never got more than $20 an hour & I own all my real estate & vehicles & personal property.
THE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.
NOT NEW
Plumbers, oil rig guys, firemen, engineers, computer science, etc. predominantly male professions make more than day care workers, nurses, nail technicians, etc. who are predominantly women.
Women make the decision to work in fields that pay less. Their choice. Men pick the ones that pay more.
No one is forcing them into those fields. STEM and hands-on manly work is hard. Sociology and gender studies is stupefyingly easy.
The ball is in your court, ladies.
Bullshit. She's got her head stuck in the 1950s. Universities are dying to get girls into the STEM fields because it makes the school look good. They are encouraged big time.
But no, they pick easy things like "studies" and soft science degrees.
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