Most PHD's in important fields like Physics, math and chemistry need 130+ iq in order to become one. Women far less likely to have such iq's compared to males. Women are far less innovative for the same reason and this is why they end up not creating successful ideas that lead to success.
Reality or prejudice?
Women coders do better than men in gender-blind study
Ignore all the mindless crap the previous poster said.
To your article.... there is some truth to the article.
However, the conclusions made by the article are false.
To illustrate, here's a story.
Two men, work at a software company. Both are aged 30. Both have college degrees. They are educated in the same college. One is highly skilled with natural talent. The other is decent, and steady. Both were hired on at the same time.
Now at first glance, without accounting for anything else, you would say the highly skilled one, is far better and thus paid far more.
But the reality is the opposite. The lesser skilled employee, is paid far more.
Why is this? Because the highly skilled coder, has a habit of leaving work to go help his parents. He also tends to take months off work.
The lesser skilled coder, shows up every single day, and comes in on weekends. He also goes and earns certifications from Microsoft and Cisco. While these certifications do not make him a more skilled coder, it does give the customers that his company services, a sense that he can get the job done, and thus brings the company more customers.
So even though the other coder is likely better at coding even without the certification, and even though he clearly more skilled.... the lesser skilled coder earns far more money.
This is a story that is true. I worked with them.
In a similarly, women have the same problem. They may be better skilled at some task, but that doesn't mean they are more valuable, because doing the task is only one part of the whole that determines your wages.
The most obvious example of this was a lady I worked with, who was an engineer. She was paid a low wage for an engineer. Well one day, she decided she wanted to earn more money, and put out her resume to some really big name companies (which I won't list here).
She landed a job, earning nearly double her wage. It was a really big company, with a really big salary. Ten months later, she called up and asked for her job back.
She came back, taking a 50% pay cut.
Why? In her own words, they wanted her to work a full 5 days a week. She couldn't take days off to be with her son, or her family. She had to work. They wanted her there open to close, like all the other engineers. She couldn't go pick up the kids because school let out early. She couldn't leave every time someone coughed.
So she got her old job back, that was flexible. Of course.... working at a place where you can take off a day or two, and be with the kids, means you are not paid as much. Leaving early, or coming in late because Timmy missed the bus, means you do not earn as much.
Refusing to go to get certified by Cisco because you are not ditching your family for a month of training.... means you are not paid as much.
This is why women are not as desirable as men. Yes, you might be 100X times better at doing your job, than someone else. But if you are not at work consistently... if you can't be counted on.... if you have to leave early, or come in late, because the kids need picked up or delivered..... then you are not going to earn as much as someone else with less skill, who is there when they are needed.
Men even get this problem. I ran into this guy, who was all bitter and angry, because he had been passed over for promotion, for years. He was ticked off because the people that got the promotion, were not nearly as good at their job, as he was.
Well it turns out that every time the boss asked people to come in on Saturday, or stay over to finish up a project, he refused. The other guys, even with less ability, always agreed to come in, or stay over. So they got promoted, while he did not.
This is how it works. Being skilled is only one element of the wage equation.
