Comment by brobdingnagians
7 years ago
Time magazine, which doesn't exactly seem to be a bastion of conservatism, had an article about this http://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/ , which had more hard-facts than anyone else I've seen, but the conclusion was that most of the claims made by the wage gap supporters are cherrypicked and false. Although, if Google specifically has a problem with it, I'd definitely be willing to listen. If they are protecting people like Rubin, it does seem plausible that other things could be going on.
Working link: http://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/
Thank you and sorry. Updated it now
I feel if anyone has enough employees with similar roles, at similar levels to pull together this kind of data, it's a big company like Google
> Time magazine, which doesn't exactly seem to be a bastion of conservatism
Although Christina Hoff Sommers does have a noticeable bias/axe to grind since she's pretty anti-feminism and considers there to be a "war against boys". Also she works for the AEI which is a conservative think tank.
When she talks about the "war against boys", she's talking about the school system. Schools overmedicate and overpunish boys. The system drives boys out of school and as a result, only 40% of college students are male. If an inequality like this went the other way, there would be national outrage.
But it's not exactly a "conservative" issue. Plenty of liberals have written about it too:
https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/06/stop-penal...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32858/drugging-of-the...
https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2015/...
"Christina Hoff Sommers does not agree with my positions on issues therefore is biased and cannot be trusted, compared to people who do agree with my positions on issues, who are not biased and can be trusted."
"a noticeable bias/axe to grind since she's pretty anti-feminism and considers there to be a "war against boys". Also she works for the AEI which is a conservative think tank."
This strikes me as "poisoning the well."
There is a war against boys. We medicated an entire generation with psychotropic drugs to make them more passive.
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>considers there to be a "war against boys"
How is there not? Literally every modern school system favors activities that disproportionally disadvantage young boys. Boys and young men are dropping out of school at a far larger rate than women, and literally nobody cares. It's a travesty.
Agree. When you perform an online search for articles on the "wage gap myth," the majority of the articles seem traceable back to her.
It's because even though there is no data to support the wage gap, it's very unpopular to question it. Christina Hoff Summers is a pioneer in the field of gender equality and has paid a huge price by actually investigating these issues. It's a risky position to take in today's political climate so not many have followed her footsteps.
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Time magazine is absolutely a right-of-center publication. Here’s a nice piece they published last week calling for more nationalism in the US: http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5431089/trump-white-nationalism-...
No it's not. You cherry picked an editorial written by an outside contributor. At the bottom you have:
>TIME Ideas hosts the world's leading voices, providing commentary on events in news, society, and culture. We welcome outside contributions. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of TIME editors.
You cannot label an entire outlet conservative or liberal because they bring in people of opposing views to write editorials unless there is an established bias over time (which you have not shown.)
It took me all of twenty seconds to find a liberal leaning editorial: http://time.com/5431836/dna-transgender-history/
Which part of the wage gap article do you disagree with?
Left of Center Bias
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/time/