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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous][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]

Right. Qualifications were critical, until women start getting them in abundance. Then it's just "diligently parrot[ing] the teacher's opinion" and no longer relevant. [/b]Trust me, I'm a woman, I understand. [b]This is exactly why girls and women are more successful than boys and men are these days. Because every time we achieve something, we're told it wasn't important anyway, and the goalposts are moved, and we have to continue striving in order to meet our goals. The boys just hear "nothing is important" and go back to their video games.

Fascinating that only those things that boys do better in are "objective" and the things that girls do better in just aren't important. 
Girls have higher grades in high school and college. But I'm sure you'll say that's just sucking up to teachers.
Boys have higher SAT math scores. I'm sure you'll say that's objective.

Or maybe, girls just work harder, for longer, and boys coast on native ability and then don't know what do with themselves when faced with a challenge. And girls keep working. Because people like you dismiss every achievement. So keep at it. Girls will continue to succeed.[/quote]

Newsflash. Pretty much everyone on this site is a woman, and many of us have had much different experiences than you have. [/quote]

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