Ask Women on Yik Yak | Can someone explain to me why women go into low-paying/pointless fields and then complain about not making as much as men... Like why not just do the thing that makes more money? Men don't make excuses, we just do it because we have to support our family

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Can someone explain to me why women go into low-paying/pointless fields and then complain about not making as much as men... Like why not just do the thing that makes more money? Men don't make excuses, we just do it because we have to support our family

-10 upvote, 15 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Ask Women. "Can someone explain to me why women go into low-paying/pointless fields and then complain about not making as much as men... Like why not just do the thing that makes more money? Men don't make excuses, we just do it because we have to support our family"

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Anonymous 5w

Because it’s only very recently that women have had the freedom to go into those types of careers.

Anonymous 5w

Have you considered that those fields just…won’t hire women??? So they’re forced into lower paying jobs???

Anonymous 5w

1. Have you considered that women don’t have nearly the same amount of support and network in these fields, not just when they get to the workplace but at their majors in school. 2. Often the only reason men are able to work at cutthroat jobs is because the expectation is unfairly put on women to take care of child rearing. See discrepancies in paternal vs maternal leaves. 3. Maybe check out Claudia Goldin’s work on greedy jobs if that’s within your reading comprehension skills 🙂

Anonymous 5w

Gender flight exists. There’s a reason why there r certain fields that men have begun to leave

Anonymous 5w

Funny story! Companies have actually made different “jobs” for women in which they do the same as any man, just so they don’t have to pay them as much!

Anonymous 4w

For me personally, I love research and want to spend my life discovering things we never knew. I don’t need to be the richest person in the room, just need enough to support my family. But if the men around me get more money for the same work, we will have problems. It is my duty to rectify discrimination now so my daughters can be free from it.

Anonymous 5w

idk I do definitely see women choose lower paying fields like teaching or art or whatever

Anonymous 5w

Why are women literal toddlers about this. If you want to make money, then study the thing that makes you more money. More fathers need to raise their daughters to not be such helpless eternal victims

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Anonymous

#1 5w

My ass. These fields hire women. I work in STEM and when we interview women we bend over backwards to get them in through the door. Stop making excuses. Major in law instead of underwater basket weaving.

Anonymous

#1 5w

🎵Lies lies liez🎶

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OP 5w

okay as a woman in stem he is not wrong 🙏 however you could definitely put this entire post and your comments much more politely and they would likely be better received

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twirling_tornado 5w

like its gotten to the point where men and women in my field assume i don’t know how to do my job (which i am extremely good at) and was only hired because of my gender and i can’t even blame them because they did in fact hire a lot of other unqualified women for that exact reason who understand and get done about a tenth of the amount of work i get done

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twirling_tornado 5w

i don’t blame the women either though like get that bag

Anonymous

#10 5w

With regard to 1, I go to the top physics uni in the world. While our F/M ratio as a whole is >1, in my intro physics class it was <0.1. Having supportive female (and male) professors, colleagues, classmates, and a system that doesn’t punish women for the ability to give birth and more are all prerequisites to even make such an ill-informed claim.

Anonymous

OP 4w

First of all, controlling for occupation does not fully explain the gender pay gap. WITHIN THE SAME JOB, men get paid more on average. Second of all, have you ever wondered WHY some jobs pay more than others? It’s possible that predominantly female jobs have lower pay because most of the workers are female. Supply and demand: they will pay less if they can afford to. Who entered the job market more recently, in an environment where they felt lucky to simply have a job?