Why does my wife with 2 MS degrees and 17 years of experience make 48k?| "REEEEEE why doesn't my wife make more money????"

The general idea that teachers have to accept such low wages because "they knew what they were getting into", and any time a demand is made for better working conditions or higher wages they are shamed as "selfish" or even "stupid" is beyond crazy.

If no one taught children, what would we do?

/u/Efficient-Leek that's a false dichotomy.

We need, as a society, all helping careers. Hospice workers, nurses and nurses assistants, teachers, childcare, social welfare workers, etc are all historically underpaid, and maybe coincidentally all full of primarily women.

No. They're paid what they're worth, but many also have needless degrees that inflate their egos. No teacher needs more than 1 year of college and the vast majority don't need any. Same with welfare workers.

The general consensus is we need to sit down and shut up about poor wages and working conditions because "you knew what you were getting into". Why can't we ask for the shitty circumstances to change? Why is that so bad?

Because it's already rigged to benefit you. Lets see how happy you are with wages when suddenly 70% of the country can also apply for the positions you want.

I think that since we ARE mostly women, there is still the "oh she's just working for her pin money" mentality. If I wanted to be a little more cynical, I could say that they hate the idea of us living on our own with a good income.

No I just assume any job done by a woman isn't that important.

It's institutional sexism. As an industry becomes more female dominated, average pay decreases. People want to say it's supply and demand, but it's not. It's a devaluation of women's labor.

If construction or mechanics became female dominated at the same rate men left the field, I can almost guarantee, based on the data available, that pay would decrease because the same thing happened in nursing and education. Men left en masse, women filled in the gaps, and pay fell.

It's actually pretty gross on a societal level.

!nooticers Hmm, why would people want to pay female mechanics and labourers less? Real thonker.