Posted on 03/02/2015 4:45:35 PM PST by jazusamo
There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women and men, paid the women on her Senate staff just 72 percent of what she paid the men. The Obama White House staff likewise has a pay gap between women and men, as of course does the economy as a whole.
Does this mean that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both discriminate against women, that they are themselves part of the nefarious "war on women" that so many on the left loudly denounce? The poetic justice in the recent "pay gap" revelations is that the fundamental fraud in the statistics that are thrown around comes back to bite those who are promoting that fraud for political purposes.
What makes such statistics fraudulent is that they are comparing apples and oranges.
Innumerable studies, going back for decades, have shown that women do not average as many hours of work per year as men, do not have as many consecutive years of full-time employment as men, do not work in the same mix of occupations as men and do not specialize in the same mix of subjects in college as men.
Back in 1996, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that young male physicians earned 41 percent higher incomes than young female physicians. But the same study showed that young male physicians worked over 500 hours a year more than young female physicians.
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Hypocrisy alert!
Lefties are sexist!
Details at 11......
The statistics Sowell reports for the early to the later part of the 20th Century demonstrate the effect that LIBERAL MONEY POLICY and INCOME TAXATION has had on the American Family. . .with the growth of the economy in the early 20th Century, women were free to seek employment. . . then the profligate Federal Reserve System playing with the money supply destroyed the availability of jobs for women until WWII. . . After WWII, women who elected to leave the workforce in the mid-Century to be wives and mothers, were later forced back into the workforce by taxation in families who had to have two wage earner homes by the end of the Century to maintain an adequate lifestyle.
“After WWII, women who elected to leave the workforce in the mid-Century to be wives and mothers, were later forced back into the workforce by taxation in families who had to have two wage earner homes by the end of the Century to maintain an adequate lifestyle.”
Exactly. One spouse works to support the family; the other works to support the government.
Yes, it does.
One point I rarely see mentioned is that MOST (not all, but the vast majority) of men are expected to bear a much larger expense burden in families & relationships than women do, so one could argue that “men should theoretically receive more pay for the same work” as women do.
Not only that, but when they’re dating women, they have to shell out so much cash to get the goods - so to speak: Dinner dates, roses, ski trips, jewelry, nice car, nice house. If a man asks a woman to split the tab on the first date, he’s blacklisted! He’s EXPECTED TO PAY MORE than the woman. Always.
“so one could argue that “men should theoretically receive more pay for the same work” as women do.”
I would argue that the real question is one of women providing equal work for equal pay—Which in many walks of life is just simply impossible.
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