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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I have a male counterpart in another division that makes a lot more than I do. We were in the same law school class. We have the same titles, and we do the same thing though our divisions are slightly different and we face different issues. The only difference between our jobs is that he's been with the institution his entire career and I lateralled in nearly two years ago, and his division may value the work he does more than mine does. He supervises more people. I have enough work for more people, but I don't have the budget for them.
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I think the seniority thing is significant in a lot of businesses. Often not justifiably from a skills/ability p.o.v. (see: every union's seniority system), but maybe as a corporate cultural thing it has value.
I think Sidd has a good point on this, but I also think women tend to change jobs/take time off/flex schedule more than men do, and it affects seniority and, sometimes, their experience and even the nature of the job they do. It also appears to me that women often have to make such changes, and men are often effectively not permitted to.
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