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I don't need to (although I will after work), that video is supported by information from the AEI; a pro-corporatist, conservative think tank that has objective motives to dismiss the wage gap. They've been caught up in numerous scandals, including trying to bribe scientists to state that global warming is a myth. Oh and they also promoted Charles Murray's anti-regulation crusade to try and dismantle laws aimed to protect labour and the environment.
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I don't think any of the data presented in the video is falsified, regardless of motives of the people behind it.
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ok fuck it watched it. The first 90 seconds is just posturing. The statistic she talks about regarding the wage gap is stupid. Yes the wage gap is a mean collective representation across many industries, but she speaks as though if you dug further you wouldn't find a million microcosms that lead to the same outcome. The rest of the video is just "oh but women don't go for higher paying jobs." And it's funny that the narrator (who laughably is the token anti-feminist woman) doesn't delve any deeper as to why women don't 'go for higher paying jobs'. Beyond that it's just willful ignorance and trite arguments.
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If the issue *isn't* women earning less for the same work than men, but rather women not taking higher-paying jobs, then it should not be considered a gender wage gap.
I do not live in the UK, but I can say with complete certainty that in Poland, which is, frankly speaking, considered a less developed country than UK or USA, women *can* take higher-end jobs, and they do. Coming from my first-hand experience: There are plenty of women in the company I'm currently working for, on both the lower- and higher-paying positions, and that company doesn't have diversification as a goal (a.k.a. they don't really give a damn).
UK and USA, however, do have strong activist groups that have gone out of their way to push in their diverse agenda to the point that some companies are forced to hire women just for the sake of diversity. They also have laws against sexism at work, to prevent the companies, to, example given, from paying women less than men. In my mind, that makes it ridiculous to think somehow women got it worse there than here.