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MSFTisMIA Are women getting paid equally dollar for dollar in your country? Because here in the US, they don't. Women get paid on average around $0.75 for every $1 a man makes. Big difference. And they don't have paid maternity leave here.
Look are careers such as engineering. Look at high ranking politicians, business owners. What gender is that predominantly?
Look at your own culture. Think about the values and expectations placed on men and women.
If I get around to it I'll post some reading material here this weekend.
I believe they actually get the same wages. Most of the bigger companies are government owned, that could be a reason. Also teachers, professors and similar, they all get equally payed.
Premier of one of our entities is a woman, our minister of defence is a woman, number of our mayers are women, the biggest hospital in the country is ran by a woman, most of the TV hosts are women.
Also the biggest cocain dealer was a woman :D.