Truly, this book requires a sequel. And it is for you to write.

My dream prom:

“The female-only train cars will be available close to where the attacks took place, “on the Leipzig to Chemnitz line, positioning the carriages next to the train conductor,” according to the Telegraph—a line that (no surprise) runs near Cologne.”

Technically, men are the ones who are more limited in where they’re allowed to go now.

I can’t imagine anyone would have a problem with this. Which is usually exactly when the internet proves me wrong.

You’ve tragically stumbled into a long series of comments about how you, a stupid woman, could never understand that the pay gap in certain industries is just because women are DUMB and not because of their gender. Good luck with that; there is no amount of proof that will convince overpaid men that they don’t deserve…

On the flip side, here are the heavily regulated industries with the smallest gap...

30% of woman are stay-at-home moms, according to one study. (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/aft…)

Wow, do you really need this explained to you? It’s pretty simple: according to the census bureau, by gender, women make 79% of what men make. Narrowing it down to industry doesn’t make that go away. Why? Because more men work in the higher paying industries than women. Put 20 people in a room, the ten men are…

So going off the “statistically, women will leave early, due to pregnancy, and take all the investments with them” train, how far do you want to split variables?

How long until that argument is used to justify why every candidate must get blood testing, genetic/DNA testing, ancestry charts, family location, religious…

The gap doesn’t exist, and also the gap is totally justified.

For some reason only one woman has left our site after having kids (and that one was more due to hating her manager than anything else). Maybe it has to do with our “we don’t care when you’re here as long as you show up to meetings and let us know when you’re out” schedule and parent-friendly atmosphere. Maybe women…

“Non-essential” can cover things like meetings, conferences, etc. Things that are often helpful and in many cases incredibly useful for doing your job but not absolutely necessary for you to be able to do the minimum requirements of your job.

Would women quit to stay home if men made less, on average?

The mental gymnastics these people go through are astounding.

In a professional climate where almost no one stays in a job more than a few years (and I say this as an exception, where I just left a job after 15 years), this is an absurd metric to use. Especially where a pretty large majority of women who decide to “start a family” nowadays only take maternity leave and then come…

I have a very good friend who also subscribes to this fallacy. The fact is that most women of the current working generation aren’t leaving work for longer than the unpaid FMLA standard of 12 weeks. So, using an unpaid, 3-month time gap is hardly a justification for routinely paying women less.

By this logic we should pay people less if they’re likely to switch jobs and don’t stay with a company 40 years. That’s not how it works.

Your comment about the IT industry may be true, but it isn’t reflected in direct pay.

The first paragraph restates the data provided by the Census Bureau (79 cents on the dollar), and the second summarizes what Glassdoor found in their study (75-80 cents on the dollar). It’s pretty clear.