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KitSileya

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4. Is that on par with arguing that since women get more degrees than men, there's no sexism?
Mon Jan 13, 2014, 08:36 AM
Jan 2014

The funny thing is, if you look at different countries, whatever occupations that have a majority of women, or are looked upon as 'women's work', are paid a pittance. In Russia, where the majority of doctors are women, they are paid starving wages. The same with professors. The moment women manage to get what is considered a majority (and that is 33%, according to studies - men perceive crowds with 17% women as equal representation, 33% women as majority women, according to the Geena Davis Institute research) the advantages of the occupation dry up. Bachelor's degrees are becoming useless - you have to have a doctorate, at least. Women claw themselves up the ladder, and men keep drawing the ladder up, so that they stay ahead.

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