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by nostrebored 3675 days ago
I didn't mention pay parity anywhere. The majority of pay disparity between men and women in the U.S. is due to job/field selection imo. The questions we have to ask are ones that determine why people choose certain fields, what social pressures are there, etc.

Which is why I agree that we need good data, but the best I can do is actually talking to women and seeing their problems, and they're remarkably similar.

That office romance bit might be different in a situation in which you have an equal number of male and female coworkers. But when you bring in a disparity of 5:1, asking out your coworkers, you're literally just having people being pestered all day.

And honestly, you're referring to a study that disseminates itself via an ad carousel with no methodology I can find. A survey of 2000 people with no published methodology is hardly reliable.

There's a reason you've never done it, and most women I talk to cringe at the idea.