[Eris]

^As the title might give away, this patch of writing may devolve quickly into ramblings, that only I might follow, and make sense of. To give you a back story of how this came about, I was doing research for career options, to get back into college, by checking out craigslist/monster adds for want add by employers.

What I noticed I had eyed in each of the listings is the acronym "DOE". Now if you're not familiar it means, "depending on experience", and of course that's in regards into how much your compensation might be negotiated. Right. Well, I don't have a MBA, or anything but I can certainly tell you I won't pay you more for doing a job, just because you've done it longer, if someone else had done it sufficiently, has less experience, and will take less. You see people being laid off all the time who've been with companies since they were out of highschool, usurped by kids out of colleges willing to work for scraps, desperately trying to pay off loans for that very reason.

Anyways, that's not my complaint. (I did tell you there was going to be ramblings! :O ) The term. DOE. I feel it's a shiesty way to allow employers to actually discriminate to your face, if they do decide to hire you on. And of course, I am talking primarily about women.

Do not get me wrong, I am the polar opposite from the "neo-feminist". I do however feel if women do the same work, we should be compensated the same as a male. Statistics however are still damning according to stats, as of 2014 we're still only making 79% of a man's paycheck. I feel if employers truly knew what they wanted in a candidate, and knew what they'd pay for their time they'd post that number. Let's make this not only a fair market to work in, let's make it a worker's market not a job market. Just my feelings...

Idk how many other women during and interview have been, ugh, sized up. I honestly, wouldn't mind that AS MUCH if they didn't top it off by figuratively screwing us in the end with lesser pay then the guys.

I think that is possibly my only real gripe about sex inequality, because it's the only one for me that directly impedes my prosperity, the rest I can kind of roll off my shoulders, ya know? Idk. Just thought I'd post, see what y'all say, if you do.

Remember no matter whether we're man woman, somewhere in between, not sure, or an alien, we're all in this together on Earth, let's try to be decent to each other, right?

[seesaw]

I feel ya 100%, Eris.

[Yzen]

This type of unfair treatment needs to stop. People need to be treated equally (from my male perspective or any perspective). I have seen this first hand unfortunately.

[RomanSunburn]

And you didn't even talk about the stigma in the working world against motherhood... Fun fact, working mothers make even less than women who are not mothers.