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Originally posted by purse junkie
Quit whining. You wanna be a woman in the work force? Cut your goddamned paycheck by 20% for no reason, get fired when you object to some assgrabbing decrepit partners' heavy breathing, then become an unemployable troublemaker when you complain. Jesus.
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I'm mostly talking about law firms, and I think those kinds of behaviour are much less common in law firms than in most of the rest of the workplace.
But, even generally speaking, give me a break. That can't always be the excuse why women should enjoy a societal double standard. "I should be able to have all this choice and sexual power compared to my spouse, because I am screwed in the work force!" What the fuck is that?
And, frankly, I think those things that you talk about are suffered by the middle and lower middle classes, not by highly-educated, highly-compensated lawyers. Have those things really happened to you? Do you really get paid less than others in your situation?
Like others here, I've always expressed skepticism about claims that women make less for some egregious discriminatory reasons. They certainly make less, but it's because of the circumstances. It's because of hours, it's because of education, it's because of choices.
I won't go check now, but someone said that she made less than someone who had been with the employer for a while, while she had lateralled in. HELLO? Do you really not see how that could matter? Once you've been somewhere for ten years, you've demonstrated a devotion to your employer and shown them that you can be trusted. You've been doing your job for a while. You deserve more, and are worth it to your employer.
