I'm amazed it didn't bring up the talking point of the Small Business Owner(tm)

I was waiting for JOB KILLING TAXES but it never came.

I turned it off after 40 seconds.

Here, I paraphrased the highlights for anyone else who can't stand to sit through it.

"Women make nearly the same as men: 94%"

"Younger, college-educated women in urban areas actually out-earn their male counterparts."

"While the intentions may be good, these laws (...) make it more costly to hire female workers."

Time to jump on that gravy-train, LADIES.

Actually, the most extreme case might have been that infamous Penny Arcade job posting where they basically wanted a unicorn developer for k.

Here's an anecdote from the tech industry. I recently met a woman, friend of a friend, who was--literally--one of the first mobile developers in the early 2000s, working at Yahoo. This is a quick recap of her story.

She was working on a big project for Yahoo for a number of years. Completed it, did a fine job, and came to hate working there. When she told her boss she wanted to quit the boss basically asked her to name her price to stay. Not caring and not wanting the job, she asked for a 50% raise, thinking it would price her out and she could leave. The boss agreed to a 35% raise--she was already making good money, so this was significant. She couldn't believe she got a 35% raise, which she also considered ridiculous.

Her take away was this: She said that for years she had hear about her male friends and counterparts just demanding more money and being assertive and she never bought that story or thought it was something she could do. When she got the 35% raise, she realized that as a woman she hadn't been assertive enough when negotiating pay previously.

My take from this anecdote: woman being more assertive will probably help in a number of cases to level the pay gap. Also, the world will probably be better off if women were more assertive (assuming they are not being as assertive as they could be). We're likely missing a lot of good ideas and voices. (And yes, men can listen better and be aware of domineering behavior.)

Not that I've ever been the position where I'm that in demand, but I'm not what I'd do in that situation. On one hand, huge raise. On the other hand, huge insult where they're basically admitting they were exploiting you.

I'd probably end up chalking it up as a lesson learned and go somewhere else where I was paid market value from the get go, get a fresh start.

A big "Huh?" on your last two paragraphs.

Paragraph 3 is disapproving of something like the Civil Rights Act. Is that a quote from Trey Parker and Matt Stone?

Paragraph 4: it's been a while since I've been to college, but what high paying fields are women "actively discouraged" from pursuing? In fact there's a shitload of initiatives these days to steer women into STEM and business areas. What fields does this chauvinist scientist cabal you speak of exist? I'm going to take a wild guess that women are a lot more likely to run into boorish superiors in blue collar jobs than research and engineering.

Why would you even quickly jump to that conclusion on Paragraph 3?

Paragraph 4, its true you do have college Advisers that do just that, but you also have a bunch that steer them into horrible college degrees.

Five for you.

There's clearly a "pro-choice" message in this.