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[–] 2 points 7 months ago

Not sure what you want to discuss. There's also pretty privilege, tall privilege and rich privilege.

There is a difference between de facto (by custom) and de jure (by law) discrimination.

Idk about your country (so if you wanted to discuss via its lenses please tell me at least the name of it), but in Poland there is much much much less de jure discrimination against women than there is against men (as per linked articles in my previous comment).

The cases you're mentioning are potentially examples of de facto discrimination against women.

For example, getting paid more than women and (other) queer/minority peeps.

This is potentially a de facto discrimination.

("Potentially" because gender pay gap is critiqued by many scholars and its purely discriminatory origin is contested if not rejected already)

Talking about my country only, as this shit changes vastly between countries, Poland has one of the lowest (7%) average gender pay gaps in Europe (and depending on a sector not always favouring the men, which adds to the gender pay gap critique; source https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Gender_pay_gap_statistics#Gender_pay_gap_much_lower_for_young_employees ), has multiple existing pay equality programs and tools (I know of two, one of which is a FOSS for the companies to check if they do have gender pay gaps), as well as upcoming transparency pay laws.

Another is being taken more seriously in discussions. Or getting CEO positions easier

For all the readers who don't know, this is called "authority gap" and is usually measured as percentage of women in positions of power (like members of Parliament or C-levels, boards of directors etc).

Another potential de facto discrimination. No comment here, as I never studied the topic and I literally can't add to the discussion nor even know the stats for my country.

About 1/3 of Parliament members are women, that's all I can tell ya.

("Potential" because there is no study if women don't win elections at 1/2 rate because of being women and thus discriminated against or because there's just fewer women candidates)

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