The whole concept of “work” generally eludes them.
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The author doesn’t mention the Equal Pay Act of 1963.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 forbids paying women less than men for doing the same job as a man.
This election season, the Democrats have been saying they think women should be paid the same as a man for the same job.
Obama himself has said this.
My observation is - Obama has been president for almost six years. If women are really being paid less for doing the same work as a man, this is already against the law. Meaning that he and the Justice Department already have all the legal tools as their disposal to file lawsuits, take executive action, etc. against this alleged discrimination, if it is really happening.
When liberals campaign saying they favor equal pay for equal work, somebody really should ask them, if elected, what exactly do they propose to do about this alleged problem. Since there is already a law on the subject, it’s not as if Congress needs to pass a law to deal with this. It’s already been done, years ago.
The military is an example of equal pay for equal work via rank structure. All people of the same rank make the exact of pay, but many females cannot perform the same tasks as males. I’ve never saw a female mechanic put batteries into an M900 series truck by herself.
If women do the same work for 73 cents on the dollar, and minorities are underpaid because they are minorities,
where are all the businesses using this to their competitive advantage?
A 27% labor cost advantage would be extraordinary!
(The above is completely lost on the left)
Work is measured in Joules. When accused of not paying equally, demand a measurement.
Work can also be measured in calories:
“the average man burns 60 calories walking fast, painting, weeding and washing a car, while the average woman burns 45 calories doing the same activities”
so men should be paid at least 33% more than women. If they are only making 27% more, they are underpaid.
Above stat from:
http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/calorie-expenditure-men-vs-women-7165.html
Throughout my career (accounting), I was paid a salary and was not an hourly worker. I met so many co-workers that thought if I didn’t work as many hours as they did that I wasn’t working as hard. When I could complete a report or set up a program in a short length of time, they would claim that I was being paid too much money. I would explain to them that I had spent years getting an education and experience and that is why I get paid for what I did.
Most people and the government measure work in a way that “equal work for equal pay” is a farce. It needs to be measured by the value of what a person produces.
People demanding $15 an hour for flipping burgers is a joke.
In a free society with a rational full employment economy, if women believe that their pay for equal work is too low, they should leave their currant job and look for higher paying jobs elsewhere. In the long run, the pay of the jobs they left would go up because of less competition by competant workers, and the pay of the jobs they wanted to change to would go down because of increased competition.In the long run both types of jobs would tend to become more equal.