AttilaVinczer

I have hired hundreds of people over my 33 year business career. I paid all my employees based on their abilities and productivity. My starting rate was $12 per hour even when the minimum wage was $7. It also cost me to teach them their tasks.

There are certain tasks that women are simply better equipped to do and there are other tasks that men are better able to do. My best employee happened to be a woman. She opened the shop and closed it. She made sure everyone did their work satisfactorily.

She had the highest wage paid. However, men worked longer hours and earned much more overtime. In the end her pay-cheque was smaller than men who were paid much less per hour.

Like you say, if I could find women to do the same work as men for $.77 on the dollar, I would hire all women. Who in their right mind would pay men more? I am in business to make money.

What can we do to alleviate this condition for adolescent boys and men who are subject to devastation of divorce and family breakdown. This is a serious issues that people simply are not or do not want to talk about. In Canada 8 men and 2 women commit suicide every day and divorcing men are 8 times as likely to commit suicide to women in the general population.