Posted on 03/12/2011 7:15:17 AM PST by mattstat
Mr Obama, in his radio address of today (which your intrepid reporter caught a portion of) said, “Today, women still earn on average only about 75 cents for every dollar a man earns. That’s a huge discrepancy.” He called this “troubling.” He also told us that March is women’s month. Oops: it’s National Women’s Month. (Men don’t get a month.)
Mr Obama’s statistics are faulty. I have done the numbers myself and can report that, within a job and age-matched with men, women not only earn as much as men, but sometimes more (on average). Particularly, women entering the workforce now earn more than men on average in most career fields. Yes, even engineering. At the very top, where gray hair abounds, men still, on average, have an edge. But the wrinklies are old and getting older and will be replaced by higher-earning women.
Another reason for the supposed “discrepancy” is that women do not enter the job force in the same proportion as men, but they are increasing that proportion. Thus, some fields are seeing dramatic increases in women; and, since these women are new employees, they tend to earn less than the older employees, who are more likely to be male.
Thus, Mr Obama, while quoting a (more or less) accurate statistic gave it the wrong interpretation; and not just the wrong interpretation, but one that is exactly the opposite of the truth. But one well in line with his call for more taxing, spending, and regulation to “correct the balance.”
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“Thus, Mr Obama, while quoting a (more or less) accurate statistic”
Considering this same statistic has been offered by feminists, unchanged and without attribution, for decades, I’d say it’s definitely less than accurate.
Looks like another blogpimp who can't be trusted. I'm shocked.
“shibumi”,
This post was the entire article and was not an excerpt. This post was solely about Mr Obama’s misused of wage statistics. It is true that I placed that post elsewhere, and not just on FreeRepublic, but why this should bother you puzzles me.
I am not a psychologist and so cannot intelligently comment on your compulsive behavior to count words in FreeRepublic posts. But if you have anything interesting or worthwhile to say about Mr Obama’s flagrantly incorrect statistics, I’d be happy to discuss them.
Interesting.
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Yes, I must have (of old habit) clicked the “Excerpt” button. A mistake. I apologize for this.
However, if you are of a legal bent, and have plenty of time to waste on trivia, please compare the post here and the copy. You will find they are identical.
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