Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.
I always had more women working for me than men.
Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.
Half of my employees are women.
I was in fact pretty much - by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV - encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men.
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.
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