WATCH THESE TWO GUYS TELL IT LIKE IT IS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hELTuUBiqSs
OK, My first point: If women are paid 77% of what men are paid in a capitalistic market
based system of supply and demand, profit and loss, how is it that there are
any men employed at all? All astute
businessmen would be hiring women, and only women, as they can cut their labor
costs by 23% by doing so. If they could
improve their bottom line by 23%, they would most definitely be doing it.
My second point: Charles Krauthammer is
right. A lot more men work at dangerous
jobs than do women, and dangerous jobs HAVE to pay more because people don’t risk
life and limb without compensation.
My third point:
Call me a sexist if you will, but the simple truth is, there are SOME jobs that
pay quite well that MOST women do not have the necessary physical strength to
do.
My fourth point: There are more men than women
in high paying jobs that require a PhD (or better), because there are more men who
are willing to spend that many years in school.
Now having said all that, the
ONLY stats that mean anything are the ones that compare apples to apples. I'm not saying pay is fair at ALL companies, but you must at least use meaningful stats.
Obama is
just campaigning for the women’s vote, and course many of the liberal
mainstream media jumped on Obama’s lie and repeated in print, on the air and
internet. They all want women to think that Obama is their hero and that
he really cares for them.
However,
his own government says that Obama’s 77% figure is far from accurate. In
2009, the US
Labor Department gender wage gap had shrunk to 95%, not 77%. Their
report stated:
"A
greater percentage of women than men tend to work part-time. Part-time work
tends to pay less than full-time work. A greater percentage of women than men
tend to leave the labor force for childbirth, childcare and elder care. Some of
the wage gap is explained by the percentage of women who were not in the labor
force during previous years, the age of women, and the number of children in
the home. Women, especially working mothers, tend to value 'family friendly'
workplace policies more than men. Some of the wage gap is explained by industry
and occupation, particularly, the percentage of women who work in the industry
and occupation."
"Research
also suggests that differences not incorporated into the model due to data
limitations may account for part of the remaining gap. ...(M)uch of the
literature, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics Highlights of Women's
Earnings, focus on wages rather than total compensation. Research indicates
that women may value non-wage benefits more than men do, and as a result prefer
to take a greater portion of their compensation in the form of health insurance
and other fringe benefits."
If you
don’t want to believe the Labor Department, what about a 2011 report from USA
Today that reported that women in Atlanta Georgia earned around 21% more than
men. They report also stated:
"Women
ages 22 to 30 with no husband and no kids earn a median $27,000 a year, 8
percent more than comparable men in the top 366 metropolitan areas, according
to 2008 U.S. Census Bureau data. ..."
"The
trend is especially apparent in cities where minority groups make up more than
half the population. Among blacks and Hispanics, women are more than twice as
likely as men to earn college degrees."
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