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    HaHaYouFoolStassa Edwards
    3/24/16 1:15pm

    Okay, so women/men and whites/POC doing the same jobs are getting the same pay, and that’s good, but seriously do you guys want a cookie or something? I mean, paying people the same $$ for doing the same thing is gayroller literally the least you can do.

    Now about getting women and POC into those upper echelon jobs.

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      arbeckHaHaYouFool
      3/24/16 1:26pm

      That’s a multi-generational problem though. I graduated with a Computer Engineering degree in 2000. There was one girl in my graduating class (I was at a big state university). The only POC in my class were Asian/South Asian, most of whom were international students.

      For Amazon and the big tech companies to hire more women, the schools need to graduate more women. For the schools to graduate more women, more women have to choose that career path. To choose that career path, more women have to have a broad science and math education in high school and before.

      The goal should be to get women into college programs for those fields. Once that happens, the gender imbalance will sort itself out. Unfortunately, even if you started balancing it out in high schools now, it would be nearly a decade before the pool of new candidates were the same size. And multi decades before the total pool equalized.

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      Vitamin VHaHaYouFool
      3/24/16 1:26pm

      What? They’re specifically addressing the pay gap. They don’t want a cookie, and it has nothing to do with diversity, which is a fair next step. But what’s really interesting is that this shines a light on the often refuted idea that women actually make less than men. They do when you factor in parental leave taken without pay, which causes the overall disparity in lifetime incomes. There isn’t in most large companies that have HR departments to protect them from illegal activity, a pay gap between people doing the same job. That’s the real story here, which we will conveniently ignore.

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    eoghan01Stassa Edwards
    3/24/16 1:10pm

    Regardless of whether Amazon treats women fairly, I think it’s safe to say that they treat their warehouse employees terribly. And given that women and men are filling very different jobs at the company, I’m not sure how impressive it is that women and men in equivalent jobs earn similar amounts. One of the ways in which sexism works against women is by channeling them into lower paying jobs in the first place (or by reducing wages as more women enter a field).

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      Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)Stassa Edwards
      3/24/16 5:01pm

      “found that the conditions at Amazon warehouses were “surprisingly demeaning and dehumanizing.””

      Conditions at FAR TOO MANY american jobs right now are demeaning and dehumanizung.

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        BadgirlbeautyStassa Edwards
        3/24/16 2:16pm

        In Amazon news apparently the Dunfermline fulfillment center has a mice and rat problem. So I wouldn’t be ordering food from them in Scotland anytime soon.

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          goddessoftransitoryStassa Edwards
          3/24/16 1:40pm

          that the company pays women and men in the United States virtually the same.

          MMMMM-HMMM.

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