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5. Detailed Facts

Best way to combat this BS is detailed facts.

Forget where I found the details for engineers. But women and men were hired in out of school at the same pay. Performance reviews and hence promotions etc. were all lower for women vs men. Hence 15+ years after graduation a woman who had never had a family would be substantially behind her male peers.

On edit From the experiences of gender transition on pay.

at New York University, theorize male-to-female workers tend to be penalized and female-to-male workers modestly rewarded because of anti-woman, rather than just anti-transgender, discrimination.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/before-that-sex-change-think-about-your-next-paycheck/#