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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2006-03-10 12:06 am

Quick poll before bed

Taking the definition of feminism as:
The view, articulated in the 19th century, that women are inherently equal to men and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
and remembering that you don't have to select entries if you don't want to (and therefore don't need to choose "I am a woman and a feminist" if you're not a woman):

[Poll #688002]

[identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com 2006-03-10 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
1. Women choose jobs that pay less.

I don't like stats because I don't know exactly what they mean a lot of the time. The Wife, though, looked at a chart of pay scales and so forth in the finance sector (in which she works), and the difference (still about 17%) was between women and men in the same jobs.