{"id":8884,"date":"2019-01-11T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2019-01-11T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T07:01:53","slug":"the-suffering-of-the-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/8884\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suffering of the Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday while doing some research I came across an article<\/a> which contained this gem:<\/p>\n

And though\u00a0women hold 52%\u00a0of management, professional and related jobs in the United States, that number masks considerable gender-based occupational segregation. Women represent 85% of meeting, convention and event planners and 72% of human resource managers, but just 19% of software developers and 9% of mechanical engineers. You can guess which roles come with more power, prestige and pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The way that’s written you’d think there was some sort of conspiracy to keep women out of the higher-paying roles, or to pay men more regardless of what value they added. And if mechanical engineers enjoy greater power than HR managers in large organisations, I’ve clearly chosen the wrong course. I’m not even sure we score better in prestige. They then go on to say:<\/p>\n

We spend about a fifth of our waking lives at work. Those hours should be a source of satisfaction \u2014 not stress, boredom and frustration.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Research shows that women often report\u00a0higher job satisfaction\u00a0than men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well yes, because many choose to go into HR and event planning rather than get their heads around calculus and steam tables to become well-paid mechanical engineers. But there’s nothing stopping them, as many of my female engineer friends can attest (and they all went to university in the late ’90s, so this isn’t a recent development).<\/p>\n

The article purports to give advice to women on what company they should work for, but seems mainly to consist of suggesting they find one where they get well paid for not doing very much. I think there might be a queue outside that outfit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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