“It’s indisputable that there’s a real pay gap. People can argue about how big, but that’s almost besides the point, The point is that every woman, every girl deserves to get paid what they’re worth.”
These are words by Sheryl Sandberg, taken from the Huffington Post, looking only on the year, not day, it had been five years ago. I am wondering if this is about a modern form of slavery and trafficking? Is payment about worth, even value of people in monetarised form? The difference is today’s deference of women: in old slave societies “owners”, the previous slave owner had been paid; Sandberg proposes to pay the slaves themselves. Hummmm, enslave yourself as alternative to wage work? Or is it just the same?
Surely an interesting question, most appropriate for the 8th of March, the International Women’s day.
A different point – as matter of a different chapter in the same book. In a brief note, titled
Was Studenten im Job wollen (What students are expecting in their job)
(even) the IWD (Institute of the German Economy) contends that inequality is going far beyond the gender pay gap, engraved in the entity and the expectations:
Although an attractive basic salary is at the top of the employers’ wish lists for both sexes, women in the various disciplines have on average significantly lower expectations than men in this respect.
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While my perspective on some of these questions concerned with the
Value Theory – is there still any value in it? – is it still worthwhile to talk about it?
is still waiting for final publication (just looking at the proofs), Amit Bhaduri’s
On the Significance of Recent Controversies on Capital Theory: A Marxian View
may be of interest.
COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND 