Posted on 10/14/2004 9:34:14 AM PDT by No Surrender Monkey
Desperate men often resort to clichéd lines when trying to snare women. Senator John Kerry must be desperate, because he dragged out the tired, misleading statistic about the so-called wage gap during last night's debate; namely, that women only earn 76 cents for each man's dollar.
This factoid comes from Department of Labor data on the average wage of a full-time working woman and the average wage of a full-time working man. And, yes, if you look at those numbers you will find that the average woman earns about three quarters of the income of the average man.
But that statistic ignores many relevant factors that affect a worker's take-home pay. For starters, it doesn't adjust for number of years worked. On average, women spend about a decade out of the workforce to care for their families. It should come as no surprise to Senator Kerry that a 35-year-old woman reentering the workforce after ten years off earns less than a man or woman who worked continuously during that time.
The wage-gap statistic also fails to consider educational attainment. Today, women earn more than half of all bachelor's and master's degrees, but it wasn't always that way. Older women in the workforce tend to have less education than their male peers, which affected their career path, their salaries, and ultimately Department of Labor data.
Women and men also often have different priorities when assessing employment opportunities. One survey of working women found that for nearly three quarters a flexible schedule was "very important" when considering a job. This means that many women are willing to trade more money for more flexibility or time off.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
And we are telling you AGAIN that your Newsweek article, without the source of the data, is absolutely worthless.
You don't think Newsweek did their own polling?
Not that I would trust them on political matters, but this wasn't written by a political person.
But you think their calling me a bitch is okay. How very sensitive of you too.
I didn't applaud them. Besides, I don't claim to be sensitive and tolerant and understanding.
This is my last post to you. If you want to get paid less, and you want to live in a fantasy world, then go ahead.
I've already told you and everyone else on this thread that I make exactly what a man with my experience and education makes. It's that simple, and it's no fantasy.
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To: BushisTheMan
Face it. You ARE playing the victim. FReepers tend to call it as we see it.
You remind me of that friend we all have who's dating a guy nobody she knows can stand, but she thinks there's something wrong with her friends and family because SHE likes the guy and nothing could possibly be wrong with someone she likes.
187 posted on 10/27/2004 6:02:33 PM PDT by Xenalyte (And then I says, "Tell me I'm wrong!" and he says, "I can't, baby, 'cause you're NOT!")
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It's an agenda to want equal pay?
Hmmmmmmm
Very smart of you bub. Getting woman to argue with woman.
I've thought I had made my last post to Xena Warrior but she just said something that I couldn't ignore.
But I'm not playing your game. Xena the Warrior Woman might, but better men that you have tried to pit woman against woman.
No, the assertion that women get paid less than men - an assertion you cannot deny you are making - supports the feminist agenda.
I'm not a feminist.
You fell for their little game, you silly goose.
You may not be a feminist, but you cannot deny that feminists use that exact argument to support their agenda.
Perhaps because it is true?
No, because it supports their agenda. Kinda like you. You have yet to prove that anyone did more than make up the statistics in the article you quote.
bye bye
Instead of finding supporting data, you bid me goodbye? That's one of the weaker debating tactics.
Stop insulting people and answer the questions I posted.
Bears repeating.
It would make much less sense for me to focus on your OTHER meretricious arguments if you would just support your original one. And when I say meretricious, I am intentionally not ruling out either sense of the word.
Stop insulting people and answer the questions I posted.
"And they could be actual facts."
Logic problem: Shifting the burden.
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