Gregory's Serverhappy gender pay gap bot day to all who celebrate
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 @molly0xfff hey, just so you know, screenreaders (and dyslexic folks, people who are learning English, all sorts of folks) can struggle with hashtags that are all lower case. camelCasing your hashtags can help! @m1ke @molly0xfff @ech @m1ke @molly0xfff Out of curiosity: What would be a scenario where a company pays median women 41% less per hour where they'd not be "doing something bad"? @Teskariel @m1ke @molly0xfff See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap for some analysis. It's like the author of this bot has such a superficial understanding of the issue as to not even be aware of the issues raised in the first paragraph there. Either that or they just wanted to score cheap rhetorical points instead of advancing any real understanding of anything. e.g. * Men face enormous pressure to make lots of money; they're far more likely to choose well-paying careers. You might think that's jacked up, but it's not really Alzheimer's Society's fault. * Women are more likely to choose to interrupt their careers when they have children. Now, this one's tricky: maybe they do it because they want to – great! But maybe this is because of the gender pay gap, or social pressure. Or... Again, though, maybe not AS' fault. @ech @m1ke @molly0xfff There's a reason why I said 41%. 21% - okay, that's possible. But 41%? For an organization called "Cathedral Schools Trust", so not exactly a garage with women in the office and men on the workshop floor? I find it *very* hard to believe there isn't a "because we can get away with it" among the reasons. It's harder than making a snarky bot, but this might be something one could get to the bottom of if one was interested. I suspect for the school you mention it has to do with how crappy teacher pay is, but that's just a guess. (See my first bullet point.)  @molly0xfff Finally a reason to encourage more large organizations to move to the fediverse: NAMING AND SHAMING. @jemal @molly0xfff fuck the fediverse, these hypocrit companies should be named and shamed everywhere! @molly0xfff with my name legally changed and me job hunting I’m now suspicious that I’m going to get low salary offers or worse, fewer calls back. @molly0xfff but it’s still miles better than pretending to be a dude. Not even close.  @molly0xfff I'm a firm believer in published pay scales where anybody be they male, female, trans, blac, white, green, gay, hetero, other, able bodied or disabled knows exactly how much they and everybody else on the scale makes. I believe in complete pay transparency. @molly0xfff I feel this will continue , as long as old white men have the power to regulate. The world is changing fast, and some can't handle that! @molly0xfff Illinois has an amazing pay transparency law that is being phased in and I'm here for it. @molly0xfff Personally I don't believe in feminism since it is something I've been able to live without in the past but I support this 💞 @Iwillyeah I do!!! Of course I do! I just don't like to associate myself with the cringe feminist people you see on TikTok these days😊 @sultry_salatre @Iwillyeah If you support equal rights and bodily autonomy for women... you're a feminist. A few cringe teenagers on tiktok don't define reality. @nbtentaclekitten @Iwillyeah I support the causes that feminism fights for but I don't like to associate myself with the term feminist. @molly0xfff omg the first time in 4ever I opened the birdie app, but I just had to scroll through the timeline @molly0xfff This is so sad actually and when you bring all these issues up, all you get is "well, women don't have to do military service", "Men are the ones doing the heavy work" and many more stupid comments. It's not like feminists (some of who are also men) are trying to solve all these social issues, but thx to idiots saying the bs above, we are REGRESSING. @molly0xfff One of the many reasons I don't use Twitter. Not saying Mastodon has no such jerks like that, but it's way easier to escape them here than there or on any corporate network. @pussista @molly0xfff @ech @molly0xfff Even if, as long as they're not straight up bigots, it's totally fine to get a different point of view. And since Mastodon has many different instances, i doubt normies would pick the very left-leaning ones. If any instance starts becoming extremist, any instance could block it easily from becoming federated, thus I wouldn't have to put up with toxicity. @pussista @molly0xfff (I mean, there are many reasons for this, some innocuous and some terrible, but still.) @ech @molly0xfff It's not. It's the reality of things. I was talking about xenophobic and queerphobic folks and that I don't want to avoid them as much as possible. @molly0xfff There's an Irish one this year too and while it's not yet a bot because the government haven't set up a DB yet, it's just as 😙👌 https://twitter.com/genderpayie @molly0xfff best thing I've seen in a long long time!! How does the bot get payroll estimations btw?  @stickyburn @molly0xfff @molly0xfff the gender pay gap affects women's social security amount at retirement. Affecting women with Alzheimer's even more impactfully. @tommy @molly0xfff @tommy @molly0xfff The data is public, and broken down too, so you can see the split at lower and higher paid jobs at the company. A typical breakdown is shown in the attachment. Lots of them look like this, the gap being caused by there being fewer women in the higher paid roles in an organisation. You can search on the company name.  @molly0xfff So if I get this right, this bot calls out organizations on their virtue signalling bullshit when they try to piggyback these hashtag trends? That's awesome! @molly0xfff  @molly0xfff Good to know they're still fighting the good fight over there. With all the Twitter craziness I wasn't sure the bot would still work. @molly0xfff if i've learned anything from this bot, it's that council jobs have the best pay equality and universities really are shameless in paying women peanuts how awful of an employer are you if you're paying women 40% less?  @molly0xfff great bot, but sadly still supporting the chief trust fund kid network  |
@molly0xfff this is such an amazing bot