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Old 10th Nov 2019, 22:55
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Originally Posted by Lead Balloon
If there is a gender pay gap, why aren’t almost all employees (including pilots) female? If females are in fact paid less for doing the same work, wouldn’t the beancounters be screaming for most of the workforce to be female?
Exactly.

If the management of my company really did pay women pilots 62% of what they pay men, they would be hiring women pilots. Period. And I suspect they'd be looking for ways to get rid of the men. What company *wouldn't" wish to reduce labor (labour, if you prefer) costs by 38% ???

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