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Originally Posted by katrik
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After companies spend money training women, they leave. They get pregnant, and leave. Their health care costs soar, while the company is out a valuable employee they spent money on training. From a sociological perspective, this is a big reason women earn a little less. It kind of sucks, but it is somewhat validated. This will eventually change I think.
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One big part of this is that women get maternity leave but men don't (or very rarely) get paternity leave. Once it's just as socially acceptable for men to take just as much time off as women, I think it will help level the playing field.
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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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When I went to Iceland I learned that female slaves were only worth 80% the value of male slaves (the good old Viking republic).
Today, wages (the modern way of valuing workers) are still around 80% of that of men for women.
It's weird that 1000 years ago and today the relative financial value of women to men was the same.
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In Deuteronomy they lay out rules for how much you have to pay when you accidentally kill your neighbor's _____, and the amount for killing a female is half the amount of killing a male. So evidently there was great feminist progress between three thousand years ago and a thousand years ago, and then progress has flat-lined since
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