On: Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries

[chongli]

Right, but that penalty is deeply ingrained into our capitalist society. You can't solve it with just a quick bandaid fix.

[theseatoms → chongli]

Can it be fixed? In the end, pay is linked to productivity. The only fix I see is increased use of paternity leave.

[chongli → theseatoms]

Productivity on paternity leave is zero, since you're not working, so why expect pay to be anything but zero?

"Paternity leave" is an attempt to create a non-capitalist bubble inside of a capitalist world. It's like building a colony on Mars; not something you can do trivially.