Is Texas truly in the bottom 5 for gender equality?

[rwr]

Huffpo = B.S.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by rwr

Huffpo = B.S.

Oh, jeez, I didn't notice that!

HPost is the Fox news of the far left....

[jlloyd87]

Here is a really funny live debate about drinking while pregnant where HuffPost trusts the word of mommy bloggers against a university researcher: HuffPost Live

Regardless of the source, most people don't know how to evaluate research quality and this is the kind of post that I hear about constantly. Needless to say, not abandoning my Texas pride has led to many of these situations.

[AlfredB1979]

Originally Posted by hoffdano

The study (at Wallet Hub) includes the statement "...We did this because the general consensus is that women are disadvantaged overall and therefore wanted to recognize states that at least give an upper hand to women in some areas" to explain why they used their system of scoring.

I think that says right away that they produced a report with a built-in bias.

There are some other problems with the study. They measured the number of females in the US Senate. There are only two senators per state. A single female has a huge impact on that score. Other states have just a few US representatives. How much would Texas' score have improved when Kay Bailey Hutchison was a senator?

They measured female executives. Of what companies? How did they define executive?

I was thinking the bias was "Blue state, good! Red state, bad!", without the surveyors realizing that Texas has its tint of purple at a minimum.

Not a loss to anyone that lives in reality, as evidenced by this thread already.

Then again, I've never worked a job where a woman with equal qualifications actually met a glass ceiling of any sort or made less than I did. Due to some dirty biz I won't dive into, a female coworker at my last job ended up with a promotion and she definitely had a lesser resume than me. Heck, if you are a woman walking into a chemical plant, the operators themselves try to hire you on the spot even if you've never seen a pipe rack before!

[Trainwreck20]

Heck, if you are a woman walking into a chemical plant, the operators themselves try to hire you on the spot even if you've never seen a pipe rack before!

I worked in the chemical plants, both in college and after, and as a co-op in college the operators/engineers were so disappointed to get a guy instead of a girl . Anyway, coming out of college, the 'rule of thumb' was that being a female was about a +5% higher pay offer, as was being a minority. A female minority was close to the +10%. The companies were trying very hard to recruit the women and minority engineers, but there just weren't that many, so it turned into a bit of a bidding war.

Now, to be fair, I have no idea on what their salary looked like compared to their male counterparts 10 years down the road....