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Beautiful People,
A new Time Use survey from the Department of Labor has been released, and with it so are my doubts about the quality of work being done there.
If it was yet another survey no one cares about such as: how many foreign workers are being hired annually in Trumps’ companies or who are the major donors of the Clinton foundation, I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
However, this survey is often point to by those who argue for equal pay for equal work, which makes it significant.
You see, the survey reported men have devoting more life to paid labor than their female counterparts, and that could justify the reason for which women earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men.
BUT in this educated survey, the Department of What-is-Labor "researchers asked each respondent to log their own time. Nobody submitted manager-approved work hours, and research tells us one of the sexes generally tends to overestimate. Secondly, the survey didn't measure productivity or efficiency. Workaholism isn't necessarily a sign of value."
At the end of the Washington Post's article you’ll find a link to Melinda Gates’ open letter, in which she offered her explanation of the labor division, arguing that no person should feel compelled to fit their stereotypical gender roles — everyone should pursue the life they want, be it work or home-centric.
LEAN BACK, read her letter and find your voice.
In The Opposite of Comfortable I wrote that women should pursue their own dreams according to their reality instead of following a social call for action. Apparently, I'm not alone.
XO,
Sharon
Melinda Gates, Annual Letter- https://www.gatesnotes.com/2016-Annua...
Sharon Nir, The Opposite of Comfortable- www.sharonnir.com
A new Time Use survey from the Department of Labor has been released, and with it so are my doubts about the quality of work being done there.
If it was yet another survey no one cares about such as: how many foreign workers are being hired annually in Trumps’ companies or who are the major donors of the Clinton foundation, I wouldn’t have mentioned it.
However, this survey is often point to by those who argue for equal pay for equal work, which makes it significant.
You see, the survey reported men have devoting more life to paid labor than their female counterparts, and that could justify the reason for which women earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men.
BUT in this educated survey, the Department of What-is-Labor "researchers asked each respondent to log their own time. Nobody submitted manager-approved work hours, and research tells us one of the sexes generally tends to overestimate. Secondly, the survey didn't measure productivity or efficiency. Workaholism isn't necessarily a sign of value."
At the end of the Washington Post's article you’ll find a link to Melinda Gates’ open letter, in which she offered her explanation of the labor division, arguing that no person should feel compelled to fit their stereotypical gender roles — everyone should pursue the life they want, be it work or home-centric.
LEAN BACK, read her letter and find your voice.
In The Opposite of Comfortable I wrote that women should pursue their own dreams according to their reality instead of following a social call for action. Apparently, I'm not alone.
XO,
Sharon
Melinda Gates, Annual Letter- https://www.gatesnotes.com/2016-Annua...
Sharon Nir, The Opposite of Comfortable- www.sharonnir.com
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