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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because women have to have better qualifications to get a job. Men are still paid more than women.[/quote]
But are qualifications the same as performance and skill? You can get every piece of paper and all the A's under the rainbow but if you can't perform, you're not getting promoted.[/quote]

Until women started getting the qualifications (which are a proxy for having the performance and skill - that's how you get the qualifications), that was the excuse for them not getting the jobs and promotions. Now you have to come up with new reasons that it's not sexism; it's that women don't deserve it!

Studies also show that women continue to not be recognized for their performance and skill like men are. 
So women have the credentials, they have the performance and the skill, and men are still over promoted in comparison.
It's sexism.[/quote]
Getting an A because you diligently parroted the teacher's opinion isn't skill. There have been studies showing favoritism in grading toward girls and with affirmative action acceptances, that piece of paper loses it's worth as a proxy for skill. 
Look at the gender ratio at all the academic STEM competitions which are objective measures of skill.  Boys don't do as well in school but do much better at competitions with objective measures of ability.[/quote]

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