tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post6004994116287397938..comments2024-01-08T05:50:04.098-05:00Comments on baxter sez: Some thoughts on "choice"Alison Piepmeierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-11954461923250592152012-04-23T12:04:15.612-05:002012-04-23T12:04:15.612-05:00This is a great topic!
In my research for my rece...This is a great topic!<br /><br />In my research for my recent research paper, "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling", I found several interesting in-depth studies, besides the Dept. of Labor statistics that prove, just as you suggested, that gender discrimination is the problem, not women's "choices". <br /><br />A Cornell University study showed that employers are less likely to hire mothers- the "Motherhood Penalty" exists. <br /><br />One study focused on the idea that some employers have that women with children are less productive. The study found that women were quite the opposite, and quite often over-compensating in performance and productivity because they felt they were negatively stereotyped, held to a higher standard, and wanted to avoid sanctions by their employers. While women who take time off for maternity leave, take part-time positions, or stay at home are perceived in a negative light, women with children who work full-time and put their children in day care are often seen as bad mothers.<br /><br />The most damning of the "women's choices at fault" for gender wage gap myth was a study of transgender people who when they transitioned from male to female had their pay reduced 1/3 post-surgery, but those transitioning from female to male increased slightly. <br /><br />Hey guys, if you choose to be a woman, you'll make less money.<br /><br />Even in jobs that have been traditionally and are still dominated by women, such as nursing, male nurses make more money, compared to women nurses who have the same qualifications, experience, position, time on the job, hours worked.<br /><br />Likewise, some 40% of women are the primary bread winners in their families. The gender wage gap has a significant impact on everyone in society, certainly the children.<br /><br />I'd be happy to share my findings (:Quichehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18390057086505601302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-83547791606454674722012-04-23T07:13:48.352-05:002012-04-23T07:13:48.352-05:00Brilliant. Just...brilliant!! *love* thisBrilliant. Just...brilliant!! *love* thisMeriahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13813502666724137451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-59286952227032519662012-04-20T15:24:51.790-05:002012-04-20T15:24:51.790-05:00Oh you just rattled my cage! I am in a profession ...Oh you just rattled my cage! I am in a profession that is dominated by lawyers and courtrooms... Entities that take away all of your choices! And because I am not a lawyer, my credentials get questioned all of the time. Let me add that I have more experience and training in mediation than most lawyers! (expletive deleted)<br /><br />Mediation is about coming to the table to make your own choices... So lawyers and judges do not make them for you. It is about creating your own solutions...your own future. And the sad thing is, most people do not even knownthey have the choice to make their own choices! Is that a grammatically proper sentence? <br /><br />It is the most frustrating, exhilarating thing to be in this place. I get to tell people that the decision is theirs. "you get to choose, no matter whatnyourmlawyer tells you. This is YOUR DIVORCE!"<br /><br />Thanks for putting this thing that I live with in context. I am sooo passionate about my work... And I get frustrated. Both are true.Tawanda Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450833039794703450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-57233395113101169452012-04-20T10:53:37.471-05:002012-04-20T10:53:37.471-05:00Head exploding with amazingness is definitely what...Head exploding with amazingness is definitely what I'm going for--right on!Alison Piepmeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-59798257434518157972012-04-20T08:59:36.818-05:002012-04-20T08:59:36.818-05:00What a full circle morning my blog reader is creat...What a full circle morning my blog reader is creating! First I read Shannon Drury's post from yesterday and pulled this quote, "If you think that all of your decisions in life are your own, that you “choose your choice,” then you fail to question the systems in place that perpetuate oppression." Because YES.<br /><br />And then this from you, "These are ways that we put decision making entirely in the lap of a single person, implying or stating that they are entirely responsible, and entirely to blame." <br /><br />And basically my head exploded with amazingness and shouts of solidarity and the sincere desire that EVERYONE start to understand how choices aren't made in a vacuum, free from the circumstances of the life of the chooser.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-50578417608308307112012-04-19T19:25:25.151-05:002012-04-19T19:25:25.151-05:00I appreciate the earnestness, starrlife. I, too, ...I appreciate the earnestness, starrlife. I, too, chose a field that emphasized the things I value. I could have gotten an MBA, but I really LOVE my job.<br /><br />And thanks for your affection, Shannon!Alison Piepmeierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972854288403934814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-3260115383151064842012-04-19T09:09:13.114-05:002012-04-19T09:09:13.114-05:00How could I love your blog more? Posts like this ...How could I love your blog more? Posts like this one....!Shannon Druryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079448879370299353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14733404.post-4014757525302195702012-04-19T07:18:02.191-05:002012-04-19T07:18:02.191-05:00I just had a conversation on another blog about In...I just had a conversation on another blog about Intellectualism and how it pervades American culture- as though success in academics is the sum total of life success and that is directly related to IQ values (and also impacts/intersects with disabilism and our children's perceived position in society). Oh and results in higher paying jobs? Not so much since there is a cross current around value of traditionally viewed "women's jobs", ie SW, nursing, non-college level teaching. And then there is another cross current that values the "cold" "male" "rational" school courses over the literacy focused classes,ie math and science. Hmmm.... thinking....<br />Choices- I know that I made a deliberate choice to pick Social Work- a strongly community/people based, woman oriented profession over psychology (which I actually consider a pseudo-science ironically considering my field of work) which is primarily research and testing oriented (dominated by males) knowing that I would never get rich doing it but believing it is meaningful work.<br />Thanks for the space to wax earnest :)starrlifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109817790942031827noreply@blogger.com