Obama, and all the others pushing this crap, know that this will not make any difference to their loved “pay gap” issue. They know that the claim is based solely on the total income of all women divided by the total number of working women being less than the same formula for men. In other words, they are comparing educators to engineers, nurses to doctors, oil riggers to waitresses, and on and on.
Workforce compensation is generally skewed towards higher pay for higher value of service, or more dangerous work. Many women CHOOSE to forego many of these types of careers in order to have more emotional connection to their vocations. Then we must also account for the women that choose to drop out of the workforce for significant periods of time to raise their children (which I applaud!)
People make life choices and as a result you will never have exactly equal OUTCOMES.
Now, what we also find is that when you actually compare men to women pay in the same field, with the same job and the same experience, women are actually being paid more than men. I suspect that this is due to a combination of factors, like the HR liberal loons are overcompensating to make up for the “pay gap” discussed here and the market demanding the talents of women in more creative fields.
Naturally, I don’t KNOW the cause of the compensation shifts, and frankly I don’t care. However, if Obama is going to demand “equal pay for equal work” I have to ask him, are we going to cut the wages of women, or force raises for men? Of course this is irrelevant to the left. Marxism demands “equality of outcome” and this data gathering is simply a tool to dictate wages to all employees.
Call it what it is....a brazen attempt to BUY votes from people who believe that the Cosmos has SCROOOOOOOD them by giving them a vagina.