onthebeach this isn't the version that HereNow was claiming but we have people in our workplace doing the same job for different pay. Some of us have the title senior in front of our title and the number of senior positions is capped. In my team there are two guys who are just as good at their work as those with senior on their title but being paid less. From what I have seen in our workplace the bosses would not be likely to leave an experienced woman on the wrong side of that equation for long. Your point is quite valid but there are ways around it.

I do wonder what sort of company males who think like HereNow keep. Certainly the claim that "The reality of this society is that women are often belittled/dismissed and/or used as decoration or considered useful only as vessels for children when they are not in the kitchen" has never been part of my world or the homes I've been close enough to to form an opinion. What are they basing those claims on?

R0bert

R0bert,

The recent controversy over highly paid ABC presenters also revealed there were women presenters paid more than men doing apparently similar work. By definition, that cannot be discrimination.

I was often paid more and got better bonuses than men and women with the same generic position title and responsibility description, but very few others undertook such challenging contracts and earned the same record $$ for the company, and were as willing to go the extra mile (or thousands of miles!). I protected their jobs by getting new contracts, dammit!