By Professor
Doom
I’ve said many times there’s a systemic
anti-male bias on campus, but for the most part I’ve only documented it with
words. It’s not just words which show a distinct dislike of males, and allow me
to demonstrate with one campus which is putting their money where the y
chromosomes aren’t (the self-identified ones, anyway):
I’m quite puzzled why this hasn’t
received more news coverage.
It
discovered that female faculty, on average, were being paid less than their
male colleagues, taking into account age, experience, hiring date and “some
performance data.”
Statistics is a particularly weak-willed
subject: you don’t have to torture it much to have it tell you anything you
want to hear. That said, there’s plenty of evidence the gender
wage gap is a myth.
A simple look at, say, male boxers versus female boxers shows males make more
to be sure…but if you compare male models to female models, then now you can
show females make more. I cite these two examples because simply by weighting
between extremes (using mysterious “performance data”) you can get any result
you want. Most studies use sane weightings and account for career choices,
hours worked, and such, of course.
“Sane” is a matter of opinion, I guess.
What to do?
We can just use logic. If this wage gap
was real, any company which strictly hires females would save 20% on employee
pay—a HUGE bonus to any company’s bottom line. Since there’s no company that’s
showing great success from this strategy, we can conclude this alleged “pay
gap” is simply statistics begging for mercy from an evil manipulator.
Anyway, this Canadian
university
manipulated their statistics to get the politically correct result. And what to
do about this alleged problem?
The Canadian Press reports that more than 300 faculty
got a pay bump of $2,050 earlier this month – those who identify as female or
“non-male,” apparently meaning that only cisgender men and transgender men
(biological women) are left out.
Wait a second. The usual (fake)
statistical quote is that women earn 80% as much as men. So…they’re saying a
measly $2,000 will close the gap? But that would mean men on this campus only
earn a lousy $10,000 or so a year! Why didn’t the university ask why their
manipulated statistics meant the faculty were only getting starvation wages?
More importantly, why isn’t there outrage
over this blatantly sexist policy?
Time and again I’ve been passed over for
being male…or at least, whispers told me as much. I tell myself the rumors are
just feeding my natural paranoia but how does a male on that campus not protest
this openly unfair treatment? For a time I did nothing to discourage a
department head’s belief I was a homosexual; she was fooled
sufficiently that I
stayed on campus a few years longer than otherwise, I’m sure…but I never
considered that if I just self-identified as female my career and paycheck
would be enhanced. I’m going to claim integrity kept me from doing so, though I
suspect my height and proportions would make passing as a non-male quite
difficult.
Oh, by the way, it’s not just this one
campus:
The
University of British Columbia gave non-men a 2 percent raise in 2013; McMaster
University did it two years later ($3,515) at the urging of its professor,
Charlotte Yates, who just did the same as provost as Guelph; and the University
of Waterloo gave its self-professed females $2,905 in 2016.
The gentle reader
needs to understand the insidious “best practices” policies of higher ed: once
one place does it, other schools feel justified. So I suspect this practice
will spread throughout North America soon enough.
And there’s not
nearly enough outrage. Note carefully how the bonuses go to “non-men”…this is
targeting a very specific group on campus. Considering there are now,
supposedly, dozens of different genders, going after a minority like this
should be a problem but…there’s no outrage.
Back to this
particular Canadian university, perhaps the males could enhance their pay with
promotions or awards? Not a chance at this school:
…is
also working on non-men quotas in senior leadership roles and “prestigious
awards,” and badgering faculty into revealing information about their race and
ability status so it can impose quotas for those categories.
Again, how is this
remotely fair?
Why is there no
outrage? I totally respect that some jobs require a certain gender (eg, dress
fashion models), but outside of those edge cases, I promise the gentle reader
if a school started giving male-specific bonuses and job searches for positions
and activities which had nothing to do with gender, I’d be speaking out against
it.
But is there
truly nobody in a position of power capable of identifying this obscene sexism?
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