One Weird Trick for Keeping Female Employees from Quitting
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This isn't just an assumption. Pretty much every woman I worked with that became a mother, cut their hours, and focused less on their career and more on their family. This isn't a bad thing, but on the flip side, you can't expect to get paid the same amount (or get as many promotions) as someone who is willing to work many more hours.
"young women identified finding a higher paying job, a lack of learning and development, and a shortage of interesting and meaningful work as the primary reasons why they may leave."
You could replace 'women' with pretty much anyone in this situation. I'm not a woman and I have left jobs for all of the above reasons.
"You could work with them to develop their skills and use their talents in interesting, meaningful ways"
I'm getting fatigued by special treatment and double-standards that are becoming acceptable. The only way to succeed is to find your own interest in your career. An employer can't develop your skills, you need to take responsibility for this yourself.
"You can default to paying them even more money, and you just might get lucky and have them stick around a while longer"
So women should get paid more than men for simply being a woman? Why isn't this considered sexist?
"PAY WOMEN MORE. Pay us what you pay our male co-workers who do similar jobs"
This narrative keeps getting spun, but there have been numerous studies on pay and women in the workforce and when you compare similar jobs, hours, educations, and skill levels, women get paid around the same as men.
Logic says that if pay were this different, we would see entire IT companies staffed with women. Companies are always trying to reduce costs. This just isn't happening.
It happens in other industries where companies know they can hire illegal immigrants and underpay them.
Why does 'diversity' have to be just another form of sexism?