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A study shows that women make less money than men when selling the same products on eBay. Those who conducted the study were no longer surprised by gender discrimination but were surprised at how much the difference between men and women was.
Read the article below and be ready to answer the questions that follow.
https://www.english-online.at/news-articles/business-economy/men-get-paid-more-on-ebay.htm
Discussion Questions:
- What do you think are the reasons men are paid more on eBay?
- What is your opinion about how women make less money when selling the same products as men on eBay?
- Share your thoughts on this, “Women have a better reputation as sellers than men on eBay.”.
- Is the gender of the seller important to you when you are shopping online?
- What can eBay do to prevent this kind of discrimination from happening on their website?
14 replies on “Men Get Paid More on eBay”
1. I think that the reasons why men pay more on eBay is women set a more accurate price with the product and they do not ask for more money.
2. I have a good opinion about how women make less money when selling the same products as men on eBay. Because in the end the women sell more things.
3. I agree with this sentence: Women have a better reputation as sellers than men on eBay. Surely, the things women sell are in better condition.
4. I think so. I think the gender of the seller important to me when I are shopping online (between people). Not in the case of an online store.
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What do you think is/are the reason/s behind the result of the study?
I’m not sure… maybe it is a cultural reason not easy to explain how the society deals with the different genders, but as the article says it is not on purpose.
What products do you prefer to shop for online?
I don’t have any preference, just anything that I need at any time.
What do you think are the differences between men and women?
Physical, mainly.
Do you think men are better at some things than women or vice versa?
Not better, just different! What determines what is better or worst? It depends on the goal, the values to measure what is better or worst can be different, so it is not easy to measure in comparison. We should just say there are different ways to get the same for different PEOPLE irrespective of the gender.
Do women face more barriers to be successful in business than men?
Yes. The first barrier is cultural since the early age of children living in societies with gender estereotypes. Later, in the professional stage, women have to deal with the maternity, how to concile it with the professional setting.
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What do you think is/are the reason/s behind the result of the study?
I think it´s important to be an responsible consumer, may be te women are more informed of the products on e-bay.
What products do you prefer to shop for online?
only informatics products
What do you think are the differences between men and women?
Only the interest in the products that you can buy in e-bay
Do you think men are better at some things than women or vice versa?
We are different but no better or bader
Do women face more barriers to be successful in business than men?
yes of course but the things are changing
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1. What do you think is/are the reason/s behind the result of the study?
I think that gender discrimination is behind the result of this study.
2. What products do you prefer to shop for online?
Since the pandemic I buy on line few things as foods and household items.
3. What do you think are the differences between men and women?
I think that women are more sophisticated and detailed looking for different options while men are more simplistic and rude.
4. Do you think men are better at some things than women or vice versa?
No, I think they can both perform the same functions
5. Do women face more barriers to be successful in business than men?
Yes, but it is something that is currently improving, we are making progress in reducing gender differences
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What do you think is/are the reason/s behind the result of the study?
I dont know the reason, I never buy on ebay I dont know hoy it works.
What products do you prefer to shop for online?
I only buy electronics things online.
What do you think are the differences between men and women?
Woman by more clothes and man buy more electronics things.
Do you think men are better at some things than women or vice versa?
No, I dont think we have to generalize.
Do women face more barriers to be successful in business than men?
Yes, I think we have less opportunities than men but it is changing now.
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1.What do you think is/are the reason/s behind the result of the study?
Really, I don’t know what is the main reason about this study. Maybe, I would like thinking that only is produced by the descriptions done by women. Because, in the most of situations, women are more descriptives.
2.What products do you prefer to shop for online?
I recognize that since COVID-19 pandemic appeared in our lives, I shop more things in internet. For example, some electronics products, some clothes (although I prefer try before to buy, but in this situation I think that if I buy clothes by internet is more probably that these clothes had been tried by anybody).
3.What do you think are the differences between men and women?
Nowadays, these differences are less than many years ago. However, for example in differents type of works (something that requiered more strength, many people thinks that is better for man instead domen). In my opinion, the only difference between man and women is the physical appearence, because both are trained in all tasks.
4.Do you think men are better at some things than women or vice versa?
No, I think that both are the same good in all tasks. However, there is some people who yet thinking that men are better to women or viceversa.
5.Do women face more barriers to be successful in business than men?
I think that in many works there are more barriers for women to get the succes. However, I would like that differences finished as soon as possible because all the world should know that women are similar to men and viceversa.
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I don’t know what the reasons are, maybe the coincidence, or just that the girls put it a little cheaper than the boys, I don’t know how the eBay platform works, but still, it seems silly to me really, that they have put it as discrimination of gender for 80 cents, often clickbait.
I prefer to buy online everything that is not clothes, clothes are better to try on before, but above all I buy technology or peripherals.
The only difference between men and women is their physical appearance, and nowadays that can also be fixed with surgeries, each one has their own personality, that’s it. Whether one is better than the other does not depend on gender, it depends on how you grow up, if you want strength, then you exercise, if you want intelligence, you study, there is no one better than another, you are not born with that.
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