Comments on: Hey Ann Friedman, is Obama your sugar daddy?

By: Cathy Reisenwitz

Cathy Reisenwitz — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Right?! A myriad of people are so wrong Seriously though, thank you for your kind words. And thank you so much for reading.

By: A Wolf

A Wolf — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:03:00 +0000

Love it!

You even used ‘myriad’ correctly.

Be still my beating heart.

A. Wolf

By: Cathy Reisenwitz

Cathy Reisenwitz — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:01:00 +0000

That women make less money is definitely not in dispute. What I’m taking issue with is that the solution is government-run entitlement programs. A better solution, as you’ve pointed out, is for individual women to make more economically sound personal choices. But we need to also keep in mind the societal and biological hindrances to women making solid economic choices, most importantly childbearing and breastfeeding. Sure, women can forgo reproducing and breastfeeding to compete with men. Childless urban women actually earn more than childless urban men on average. But for that to be the long-term solution to the wage gap seems unfortunate.

By: hahastatism

hahastatism — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:22:00 +0000

“[Women] make less money.” Fact! That’s what happens when men are the overwhelming majority of students in technical fields such as engineering, and thus fill the field with more men and get paid a lot. While women on the other hand are far more likely to study social sciences, which pay far less than technical fields. Your choices have consequences. Men and women in the same job, for the same amount of time on average have very similar salaries and in many fields women are actually paid more.

On the subject of female CEOs, the reason why there aren’t that many is because promoting a women to a critical position is risky. If she gets pregnant, she will be unable to work for several months, leaving a hole in leadership.

It’s not discrimination, there is no war on women, it’s just the hard truth. My advice to women is, learn programming.