Reply to post: Re: From afar

The great leveller: Nokia waves magic wand over unfair wage differences, and *poof* they're gone

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Re: From afar

Because it's not normally as simple as 'if women; pay *0.8'

Your senior guys hired in the 80s are men, your new junior recruits are 50:50

Your senior woman engineers have been in the company since the 80s getting the same 2% raises as the men - but then you hired a bunch of men from Microsoft and paid them silicon valley wages.

Your male staff have switched job 5x as often, getting a 20% bump each time. Your salary is based on what you were making at the previous job.

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