Based Woman Beautifully DISMANTLES The Wage Gap
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the wage gap and whether or not it exists between men and women in the workplace. Is there a wage gap or not? Do women really have to work full-time vs. part-time in order to earn the same as men?
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let's say we go back to the beginning of feminism with the suffrage movement
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if you had to fight if your options in order to vote was to fight in the front line of combat
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would you give it up during war times no nope say the question again please okay so if
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in order to vote you had to be drafted and in the front lines not just like cooking in the army go
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to war basically yeah go to war would you still want to vote no yeah i'd go to war forget that
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no no i'll stay home i'll tell you that i'll stay home hell no i'm learning to cook any recipe
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get me off the battlefield do you guys think the wage gap exists no
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it does it does but it's only what i don't know eight nine percent but are you taking
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into account the time the amount of time that women are out of work and the amount of women
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that work part-time the majority of men like they they work full-time and they work for a lot longer
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than us so the statistics are saying that there's a wage gap generally doesn't make any sense unless
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you specify it down to women who are working full-time and men who are working full-time
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because otherwise the statistics are skewed because obviously there's going to be a gap in
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the wages if a woman is working part-time and a man is working full-time and say a woman takes time
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out to go on maternity leave or whatever like i think that statistic is just silly like if you look
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at men and women actually in the same job like my job for example guy same age as me both graduates
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we earn the same i don't i don't think you ever walk into a job and the boss decides she's gonna
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earn less because she's a girl i think maybe there might be a bit of bias when employing someone
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do i want to hire say a 28 year old who's just gotten married versus say a 35 year old man if i
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was the boss you know thinking financially i would probably pick the man because okay she's just got
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married she's 28 she's not got much time left she's probably gonna have kids soon and you have to pay for
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maternity yeah you have to pay for like thinking of that from an employer perspective i gotta pay for
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you to not work for six months no i agree completely yeah and that's the thing women don't want to do
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the most stressful jobs typically and i say this from like hiring people i've had situations where
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i'll offer people roles here where they'll make like double triple the amount like but they'd have to
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recruit and recruiting's hard and they don't typically want to do it and it's stressful because
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we can't do the show if you don't do it but women i don't know they just don't want to do those jobs
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exactly and like if you look at jobs like for example like labor jobs i mean i don't know a lot
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about this um but you know the majority of women aren't in labor jobs and people love to scream oh this
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is inequality and you know women aren't welcome in these industries no be real with yourself do you
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actually want to be on a construction site and the majority of women don't want to be there so that's why
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we're not there that means that's actually true you just contradicted yourself that means there
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would be a gap in the working industry with man and woman a wage gap how would there be a wage gap
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because if a woman got employed in the labor job same as a man she would still earn the same so there
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wouldn't be a wage she wouldn't earn the same because she wouldn't be able to do the job anyway
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she's not physically strong enough to do the job and the boss will see that so he he's not going to
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pay someone full wage knowing that she can't even partake the full job anyway she's not doing the same
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work as the guy anyway so it's not inequality she's not capable of doing what the man's capable
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it would be really unfair to pay her the same and a man break his back every day and her get the same
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money i'll be livid if my husband come home and there's a woman doing less and he's becoming
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unbroken and like that's just not right yeah no fair enough i mean i just think like you usually hear
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things of people saying like you know um i went on a podcast recently and we were discussing engineering
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and i was on there with a girl who was talking about how she was in engineering and she was
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really successful in it like she was actually like above the majority of men she was in quite a high
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power position she she struggled in that position obviously because getting a group of men to listen
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to you when you're in in an industry like that is going to be quite hard um but i just think like
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women the majority of the times aren't in those jobs because they don't want to be like obviously
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physical strength is a limitation of course but i i do believe that in this day and age if you want
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to do something you can go and give it a go and i think if a woman wanted to be in the labor industry
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she would and could and should go give it a go but i do agree that well i'll be honest i'm a i'm a
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build fiber engineer so i'm the one that's picking up the ducks everything and pushing through cables
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and everything bringing fiber to people's and do you earn the same as your male quality yeah i do i
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earn exactly the same so i i want to ask a question would you guys work in an oil rig in alaska
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for three hundred thousand dollars a year raise your hand if you would yeah i would
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purely for curiosity and adventure but that's what i mean if you ask a group of guy that guys
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that questions half of them are like i'm gone you know they're going for the peace like to get out
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the crazy households that exist now like yes please
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do you think women are more masculine today than 50 years ago definitely 100 and have you guys ever
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struggled with your femininity 100 okay someone anyone who struggled with their feminine i would
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say i struggle in a sense where i have no choice but to be masculine to fend for myself because there
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isn't really any man providing for me in that sense so i'm forced to actually be masculine and then
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you know pay for my rent the car the everything else i have to pay for if i had the choice i would
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choose to drop that tomorrow and actually just have a guy do all of that are men forced to be
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feminine when they're single fathers um yeah because there's no woman in the home not necessarily they
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can go find a female to replace that i feel like they would have to tap into certain feminine roles
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i wouldn't say they have to be feminine but they might have to um do something that they wouldn't have
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to do like for example if they have a like for example i lived with my dad for a period of time my mom
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wasn't in the home he had to tell me about which was very awkward monthly your your period yeah to
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have that conversation with me whereas if a woman was in the house right but does he start acting like
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a girl like is he like hi no definitely no definitely how you doing he's definitely not be doing that but
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it's like i'm in my feminine today no no but he had he had to step into a feminine role right but he was
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still very masculine right but i feel like how can i but i think that's how guys hear it when we when
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we say we have to be masculine yeah because there's no masculine because there's not a guy around or we
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have to do masculine things i feel like for me when i had to was in masculine energy is when i was in a
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relationship where the man wasn't leading so i wasn't able to be feminine he was allowing me to make
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this like i don't i like making decisions but it was a thing of where i was making all of the decisions
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like oh it's fine no you have the last saying it was like okay like oh you do this you do that i
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was in a masculine energy because the man wasn't operating in the masculine energy yeah so i was
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basically like struggling and fighting every single day for them well why are you picking feminine men
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do you know well why am i pick i was very young when i met him i was 18 so i didn't know about
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feminine masculine energy you're young oh he looks good or he's nice and you just go with the flow so
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i didn't know that then it wasn't until seven years have gone past wait okay so you didn't
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notice it for seven years i noticed it but i was like ignoring it because i was like oh this is who
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i love i want to be with and you ignore when you're in love you're blinded so for seven years you were
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masculine masculine yeah so how how did you stop being masculine because i'd imagine like if you do
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something for seven years how do you just break that habit to be honest with you i'm still in therapy
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i'm still healing and learning i haven't stopped being masculine i'm learning how to not be masculine
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so i'm single at the moment because i've had to learn that i basically stopped by not being that
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person anymore and realizing that oh my gosh i was operating in masculine energy because they
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wasn't and it wasn't even their fault it's just something that they couldn't do it wasn't within
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them so now i'm in a learning process like okay i don't want to be masculine anymore i want to be
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feminine i want to be soft but still i'm not a type of soft person that just sit at home no i like to
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work i like to earn but i want to be able to be for a man to look at me and be like this is a woman
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she's not trying to be strong like aggressive i don't want to be like that but yeah so i'm still
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in the process of so for the single fathers what actually stops the guy from getting a replacement