It was good enough for the British scientists of the 19th century, but young people these days are made of wimpier stuff :P

but it may well be that at the time of interviews there is no expectation of paying less to women, and that the salary negotiation is a detail after the decision to appoint the individual; that women end up being cheaper is therefore a permanently unexpected bonus, not something which the recruitment process is equipped to take advantage of; no choice is ever being made to employ the cheaper. Therefore men and women will be recruited purely on the basis their skill set.

The possibility is that women fail to push for higher pay both at interview and when seeking rises. The latter particularly will leave to them staying on lower pay long term.

The point about filtering is well made, but to believe that 2500 miles of ocean is not enough to disperse the gunk seems pessimistic!

There is an judicial organisation with responsibility for oversight of this. The question is whether they are doing their job, and whether the penalties for abuse are sufficient. Given that the answer to both is probably 'no', we clearly do have a problem, but it's too simple to say it is 'extra-judicial'.

If the data is physically in country A, then the court of country A can ban the company that owns it from releasing it, regardless of its 'ownership' by someone else. And it gets lots more interesting if the data is owned by MS Ireland, not MS USA...

The disk crashed and we lost the data - like her at the IRS... terribly sorry...

the wholly owned subsidiary of MS, but subject to IRISH laws which require a court order from an IRISH court to release data.

and not a revolution by force... otherwise those nice people in the black vans will be round.

But ensure that the operatives who DID know are charged with something.

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The question is whether appropriate maintenance was done subsequently; a failure to do so would indeed constitute a symptom of the infrastructure crisis, which is often caused by routine maintenance being cut as a 'painless' cost saving for a financially strapped government. Then it comes back and bites them...