@M121 All the time. Female construction workers are a regular part of the landscape, even in my conservative city. Delivery drivers the same. The two best set carpenters I know are female. I will grant that I've yet to meet a female mechanist who can lift as much as the big boys, but then neither can most of the men. They're the big boys for a reason.

@M1211) Men are more likely to enter jobs that require long hours. Why is that? Oh that's right most women, even now in first world countries, bear the majority of the burden of raising kids. Being a single dad myself I know damn well how much overtime you can do with kids in tow, it ain't much. This right here is institutionalised sexism regardless of what old mate in the video thinks. (Just perhaps he needs to do a bit more reading on what constitutes institutional/systemic sexism. Hint Weinberg is only the most obvious part.) 2) Men are more likely to ask for raises. WHY? This bloke is a tool. He looks at the surface and never cares to ask why these things should be. From his point of view benches are made from laminex and paint. 3) Cf 1) It's even right there in the video yet he chooses to ignore the reasons behind it. Either he's running a study in confirmation bias or he's drunk the neo-liberal Koolaid according to which only business (specifically wealthy businesses) matters and the workers can go fuck themselves, with a pineapple, sideways. Men go to work even when they are sick, reducing productivity for themselves and others in the hope of looking macho. This is actually a bad thing for all concerned. The boss who values this is a terminal fuckwit. In this case women should be paid more because they're being less of a drag on the business.Enough already. If this is the standard of his argument his primary thesis has been refuted time and again, not least in his own video. What an appalling load of cherry picked and confirmation-biased load of shite. Possibly the worst argument I've seen for the MRA explanation of the pay gap. The statistical one, that there are more low paid jobs for women as the men who used to occupy the same pay scales have been automated or off-shored out of work and therefore don't appear in the wage statistics, is far more accurate, but still not a complete explanation.

@M121. That's fare.