S.LAM

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

— Rebecca Stead (via purplebuddhaquotes)

Favorite story posts part 1

I’ve definitely noticed this.

Wish i could actually test that

You’re strong, you’re a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this. 

That sounds like a truism, but the academic work behind it helps explain the pay gap’s persistence even as the factors long thought to cause it have disappeared. Women, for example, are now better educated than men, have nearly as much work experience and are equally likely to pursue many high-paying careers. No longer can the gap be dismissed with pat observations that women outnumber men in lower-paying jobs like teaching and social work.

The same thing happened when women in large numbers became designers (wages fell 34 percentage points), housekeepers (wages fell 21 percentage points) and biologists (wages fell 18 percentage points). The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relatively menial role done by women. But when male programmers began to outnumber female ones, the job began paying more and gained prestige.

That’s it!

California has about 10% of US employees. There are similar laws in Oregon, Massachusetts, Delaware and Puerto Rico, along with several large cities: New York City, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and city employees of Pittsburgh, PA. It’s likely that staffing agencies will just start giving out salary ranges and stop asking, because it’ll be harder to set up different protocols for different jobs. 

where is the lie