[vcool07]

I'll be shocked if its true. I'm working in the tech industry for like 13 years now, I've never heard of anyone getting a lesser pay on account of gender (at-least here in India). What has gender got to do with knowledge is beyond me !

[disordinary]

As in lots of western countries we have a large amount of people form India in the Aotearoa (New Zealand) tech industry and quite a few in my workplace.

We're in the middle of an election right now with one of the political parties campaigning on forcing companies to make what they pay public so that we can ensure that minorities are being paid the same as others.

So, naturally the discussion turned to equal pay at work and one of the new Indian hires said that in India his boss told him that he didn't like hiring females and when he did he always paid them less as they were stupid and lazy!

That is obviously horrendous.

This isn't an attack on India, I've never worked in a workplace with gender bias as far as I've seen, but just because my experience is positive it doesn't mean that it's positive everywhere. There are good and bad workplaces in every country unfortunately and statistics back that assertion up.

Because I've never experienced anything bad it doesn't mean that bad things don't happen.

[sumedh]

> I've never heard of anyone getting a lesser pay on account of gender (at-least here in India)

and so you can speak for all Indians?

I have heard one of my Indian manager saying they dont prefer hiring single females who are not native to the city where they are hiring because once they get married the females would leave the city and so the company loses all that training/skills etc.

[kamaal]

The attrition in most IT firms in India has been around 13% on an average. It means they have to hire endlessly to merely survive, let alone grow.

That argument you made I've heard many managers say in many situations. You can't blame them because they have a situation in their teams where if the team size is say 20. There are on average 5 people who are expected to slog till death, while the remaining chill. You also run into situations where the most laziest ask for never ending accommodations. Leaving office early, WFH, never showing up on a friday, onsite, unjustfiable hikes etc. There is an upper limit how much a few people can work to make up for others.

Regarding that training part. The problem is in a country like ours(India) where merely getting a job can be a ticket out of poverty. Expecting companies to pour in several hundreds of crores to train people, all because they were bored at home so wanted some place to sit and while away time till marriage, and move on later is a national waste. Especially if you are taking resources for people who are more committed to using that training to do something for themselves and the company.

Don't expect others to take your career and life seriously, if you yourself don't.

[craftyguy]

India != USA

I agree with you though, gender does not matter, and should not matter, when it comes to compensation.