Pay is based on background + experience + knowledge and how much company see as valuable resource.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of women from India and China earning $100k salary in California itself.
If you average out salary across depth and breadth of jobs and complain women don't earn enough I pity you.
Look out for "Flaw of averages" from Dr. Sam Savage of Stanford.
If you are competent what is literally stopping from changing company ? or Start your own business ?
Complaining that you get paid less because you are women is nothing but non-sense. Show me recent graduate girls ( women ) earning less than recent grad boys.
In US you don't just look at salaries. You look at total compensation which includes PTO, 401k, holidays etc etc. Each company is different so some companies might be paying low on salary but high on PTO. So all I am saying is you can't just average out and claim that you are getting paid less.
By the way how this is not gender discrimination ? Guess US does not follow its own law. There are thousands of men also who get paid less , go years without increase what about them ? Why no movement for them ?
US is following path of Scandinavian countries and it is very sad that it is in downward spiral.
Asking for raise because you are woman ? How is that not gender discrimination against men ? Guess, US does not follow its own law.
There are literally hundereds of thousands of women coming here from India, China and working hand-in-hand with men. IN many many cases I can show you women earn more than men.
Problem is that liberal femi-nazi propaganda is flawed. You can't just take average of salary for women and compare it with men. There are depth and breadth of job categories and averaging out salaries does not work.
Read "Flaw of Averages" from Sam Savage of Stanford to better understand the game.
If you are really competent enough go change the jobs , work for startups, work for top 10. Who is stopping you ? Now , don't complain that companies don't hire you because you are a woman.
I feel that US is gradually following path of Scandinavian countries where women ultimately want to overpower men rather than seeking equality. Many feminazi movements are for free social welfare.
What about men who also quietly accept job and underpaid for years and years. Just look at many smart engineers still working ass-off after 10 yrs and getting 100k. Learn to look and live outside silicon valley.
One last point I want to bring is that if you create business hostile environment not only talent will run away but also companies will start to migrate. America has fought war after war for 20 years and I respect those who have lost lives , served the country.
When you create/join any movement don't think short term or instant gratification rather think long term social+political+economical impact for you and your children.
I feel bad that America is on downward spiral and unless some magic happens or you get another MLK ; its very hard to stop the demise.
See its very simple silly. Big Corp. like GM, GE operate and loot american people. Americans are blatantly stupid to bail out Corporation and then complaining about it.
Companies like box get large sum of money from these big corp.
So in a nutshell, its american people's money who bailed out in 2008 and got their shares wiped.
Now box get to enjoy on that money. Ultra-privileged select few get to be acquired from these companies again.
What you got ?
If google comes out with unlimited storage for everyone box will fail tomorrow.
Yeah, there are some suckers in this post who do nothing better than complain.
Author did not copy anyone's content rather simply linked and compiled the list.
By that logic you should also complain about Google because all they do is show results for query and link to other people's content.
Oh, did I hurt feminist inside you ?
Here are claims[0] from prominent national news organization and many many reputed sources.
So that addresses your question #1.
#2. You are twisting the words. I said when "When HP announced "Meg Whitman" as CEO everyone was so voraciously attacking how HP is is being in bad condition because of male CEOs". It is not same thing as saying Whitman was chosen because of her gender.
My point still stands though. In her tenure of last three years she has failed to turn around HP from lost focus despite whatever claim you see.
Here is latest news on more layoffs from May [1]
So she is doing no wonder than some male in same position being as CEO.
#3. I don't know about conspiracies and I would never see myself assimilate with one. But, here is thing I can tell you.
Circle of powerful people do definitely want more women in powerful position. HP, Yahoo, IBM, Oracle( recently ) on and on. I don't know if these efforts are to get more women in tech industry or something else but there are sustained efforts across US for sure.
Regarding your claim "few women in tech industry " is blatantly false. I worked for four Org. on east coast. 8 out of 10 IT managers are women. 7 out of 10 women in mid to senior level mangagement up to VP.
This is not case of any one company , rather I would say there are more women in management than men.
I don't form my opinion from sustained campaigns run by someone and I certainly look far beyond San Francisco hypocrites.
And that's why we must understand that at executive level gender does not matter. What matters is strategy and ability to execute. When HP announced "Meg Whitman" as CEO everyone was so voraciously attacking how HP is is being in bad condition because of male CEOs.
Being male does not matter. Whitman has failed tremendously. Not only HP has laid off thousands of people from US ( some of them I knew personally very well ) and increased offshoring in India and Philippines but also they now seriously lack true culture of invention.
I studied APM at Stanford and HP case study was presented repeatedly as how it went from Inventor's Org. to control structured Org.
I was recruiting at major ( top 20 ) universities and from many places I got feedback that young people deliberately avoid joining HP. Those who have left in HP are in survival mode and always worrying if they are next in round of layoffs.
So when feminists advocates claim that female CEOs are better than male CEO answer is simply NO. At highest level you want someone who can not only steer the ship but take everyone along with you without loosing them.
If I was major investor in HP, first thing I would ask is Whitman be removed from CEO position. Get new energy in. Since cultural changes don't happen overnight implement strategies to go from Operational ( Control ) based Organization to Inventor's Org.
I will certainly not consider next CEO based on gender and would not bring someone in just because she has vagina.
PS - Sorry if this came as too bold but I could not resist myself.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of women from India and China earning $100k salary in California itself.
If you average out salary across depth and breadth of jobs and complain women don't earn enough I pity you. Look out for "Flaw of averages" from Dr. Sam Savage of Stanford.
If you are competent what is literally stopping from changing company ? or Start your own business ?
Complaining that you get paid less because you are women is nothing but non-sense. Show me recent graduate girls ( women ) earning less than recent grad boys.
In US you don't just look at salaries. You look at total compensation which includes PTO, 401k, holidays etc etc. Each company is different so some companies might be paying low on salary but high on PTO. So all I am saying is you can't just average out and claim that you are getting paid less.
By the way how this is not gender discrimination ? Guess US does not follow its own law. There are thousands of men also who get paid less , go years without increase what about them ? Why no movement for them ?
US is following path of Scandinavian countries and it is very sad that it is in downward spiral.