>Congrats on your flexing about making USD $80K though, lol, glad you aren't insecure.

Well that part was just an inside joke you weren't supposed to get, no worries ;)

Wow... please take your bigotry elsewhere.

Not done with my studies yet, will be working towards a degree in engineering with a focus towards IT where I'll earn 70k/month SEK.

I hope you can find happiness in life.

I'm studying economy, and I'm not a woman. What exactly are you trying to say with this comment? That this official data published by highly regulated governmental agencies, that is backed by a scientific consensus, is biased?

No you of course can't just say "they're being paid more than me" and conclude you're being discriminated against, but some of the reason why engineers are being paid so much and teachers so little can partly be explained with there being more or less men and women in a specific trade.

Issue for me trying to explain this to you is that I'm coming from a country, Sweden, which has largely solved this issue and has lots of research on the subject. And I'm guessing you're from the US, where you're largely stuck at the point we were 20 years ago. I can't expect to convince you otherwise when you have lobbyists who've been spending millions telling you this shit for the past 20 years to hinder any progress.

Like even weighing in all the relevant factors like differences in trade, hours, experience, and like 20 other things you still have a massive gap in pay, one that you really can't explain with anything other than gender discrimination.

Here's a relevant graph from my thesis, showing how there still was a big gap even when properly compensating for all relevant factors:

https://www.ekonomifakta.se/webapi/chartimage/direct/png/sv/23886/1,2/all/1200

This is official data from the official governmental agency of statistics, Statistics Sweden or SCB.

I'm currently writing my thesis on wage gaps and this way of thinking has problems because historically many occupations have had low wages specifically because a majority of the workers in that occupation is women. Breaking it out by occupation often doesn't help much at all.

Fossil fuels are a lot more expensive than renewables... there's a reason a lot of them need subsidies to not go out of business.