NPR:
Women still earn much less than men, and minority women fall even lower on the pay scale. This, according to a new report by Women’s Way advocacy group.
Valorie Rawlston Wilson, a scholar with the National Urban League Policy Institute, and Melissa Weiler Gerber, executive director of A Woman’s Way, discuss gender discrimination in pay.
NPR reported its five highest paid employees were:
1. Managing Editor Barbara Rehm, $383,139
2. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel [pictured], $350,288
3. Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, $332,160
4. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, $331,242
5. NPR afternoon programming director Richard L. Harris, $190,267.
What is truly annoying about this crap:
1. More often than not, the various figures showing women earning significantly less than men are based upon the communistic idea of “comparable worth”. Sorry, but demand for secretaries and office assistants (predominantly female) and demand for truck drivers and construction workers (predominantly male) will be driven by different market forces, no matter what your social(ist) “scientist” claims about “comparable worth”.
2. Never does there seem to be there any quantifiable proof of systematic wage discrimination for a man and a woman, at the same skill level, with the same level of seniority, in the same rank.
3. Ah, but over time, men still out-earn women because they attain a higher skill level, seniority and rank, whines the feminist meta-narrative. Well, there is a very good reason for this, and it is spelled C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N. A woman typically does drop out of the work force at least for a short time to birth, nurse, and above all raise children. Meanwhile, her husband, if he’s any good, works all the harder to provide for his family. And this is a good thing. How perverted the feminist (leftover communist) meta-narrative to demonize a husband who does the right thing and works harder for his wife and children.
Gee a woman’s advocacy group came out with a report that confirms their beliefs? Hard to believe.
Still, I love how the narrative continually shifts: it used to be equal work for equal pay. Now it’s just equal pay, regardless of work.
Awesome! The NPR afternoon programming director makes about the same as the Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne.
Bah.
Michele (pronounced Meeshell) Norris doesn’t pull some of that top coin? WTF!!!
She’s sort’a hot.
But the Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne will soon be “working” for Boeing or Lockheed for a couple million a year.
Barb Rehm is better at killing stories than the whole 82nd is at killing whoever they kill. I listen to NPR, I know.
“But the Division Commander of the 82nd Airborne will soon be “working†for Boeing or Lockheed for a couple million a year.”
Uh, you do know that the 82nd is an Army Infantry unit, yes? Just because they jump out of planes, doesn’t mean their boss will be working in aerospace someday. Or designing mile high balloon fences just beacuse they have ADA units…
Does one’s potential future employer somehow negate the value of one’s current employment, you fucking cocksucker, parsnip?
Snippy ain’t the brightest tuber in the bunch, Major John.
Um, you do know Boeing and Lockheed do far more than just aerospace these days, don’t you John?
I guess that means the Commandant of the USMC will end up CEO of Norwegian American Cruise Lines?
Major John – The tuber is so far beneath you it would have to climb 2,000,000 ladders just to make it up to hell.
Quite so, but your flip remark was wrong on premise and on humor grounds.
Um, you do know Boeing and Lockheed do far more than just aerospace these days, don’t you John?
Interesting that you’d defend Boeing and Lockheed’s diverse military capabilities with such zeal, parsnip. But like you, UC Santa Cruz welcomed both companies with open arms to their career fair while blocking military recruiters. So, I surmise, like you, they are hypocritical idiots.
Maybe he’ll write an ass-cowering book for $5 million like Tommy Franks did instead?
There’s plenty of pork available to former generals and admirals.
Of course, you can look at Boeing’s board here: http://www.boeing.com/corp_gov/board_directors.html
and Lockheed’s here:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/investor/corporate_governance/boardofdirectors/index.html
Looks like a grand total of one possible Amry guy in the lot…
It really is the definition of mendoucheous. How many names has it been banned under?
Well, lunch time is over, back to dealing with the Re-insurance Department….
“Maybe he’ll write an ass-cowering book for $5 million like Tommy Franks did instead?”
You are not fit to lace up his boots.
I say for the new year we find ourselves a few new trolls. Out with the old and all that.
Turnip has changed the subject.
Personally, I never got a good answer as to why these toads at NPR make more from “public broadcasting” that the POTUS.
If you want to talk about ass-covering Generals you should probably be talking about Gen. Karpinski.
Mr. Pink – It is not fit to type Gen. Franks’ name.
Mr. Pink – It did not say that Gen. Franks book was asscovering, it said asscowering, implying that he somehow hid in fear …
I was under the assumptiong that he ment ass-covering since he mentioned a 5 million dollar book deal.
By the way JD can you wait until all our generals become the kind of heroes that only Democrat presidents seem to be in charge of?
If you felt the earth shake under your feet it’s because I agree with Carin.
Their pay looks inflated to the extreme. I thought they were doing-public-service types but instead their overpaid government union types, nattering Darleens. I’m simply crushed.
The NPR pay is outrageous.
Is the job really so demanding that no one capable would do it for half that wage or even less?
I can see no way at all to justify nearly 400K for the job. No way at all.
Mr. Pink – Generals are cool to the Dems, but only the ones that they agree with. And when they do not agree with the Generals, like on Iraqi policy, they just ignore them.
I’ve always wondered, if the people running businesses are such cold blooded free-marketer robber-barons, then why does this scenario never play out?
[I’ve got an accounting business. I employ 30 accountants. They are all men. Since I can pay a woman ~30% less for the exact same work and position status, why don’t I fire all my current accountants and replace them with women, thus cutting my payroll by 30% without affecting output in the slightest]
NPR gets less support from the government than your average farmer or Wall Street firm.
That’s why they have pledge weeks.
Those tote bags are handy!
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Mr. Pink – It did not say that Gen. Franks book was asscovering, it said asscowering, implying that he somehow hid in fear …
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I was under the assumptiong that he ment ass-covering since he mentioned a 5 million dollar book deal.
I just assume parsnip is a moron.
You’re a tote bag parsnip
Those folks at NPR sure do know a lot about the working man, and the middle class. And parnsip is a douchebag, not a tote bag.
tote bag full of douche?
Focus people.
Focus people.
What were we talking about?
Nobody knows America’s working class like the Toyota Republicans, JD?
Or a douchebag in a tote bag.
None-NONE! of the people deserves even an appreciable fraction of what the 82nd’s Division cammander makes!
Where is the Outrage! over these incredibly high salaries…Surely the GS scale hasn’t changes that much since I flirted with becoming a G-S’er…Is it even this high on the SS scale..?
I think we need to have O! demand that these folks make no more than any other GS’er does…
Oh wait…I forgot…They’re mostly liberals, who carried his water during the election, at NPR…
In that case, they obviously need a raise!
Go back to eating your own turds, douchebag.
NPR is very highly skilled at propaganda. They leave the New York Times in the dust really. I can imagine that’s not cheap.
Nobody knows America’s working class like the Toyota Republicans, JD?
No, we’re not like those Subaru-driving liberals, are we?
I tell ya what, next time you see an F-150, you got rap on his door and tell ’em who you voted for in the last election and why. See if the guy buys you a latte.
well, um, guys, the President makes $400,000 now, I think. so there’s that.
I’m tired of NPR and PBS and their liberal biases. They’re funded with public money, and therefore should be compleyely objective; but I won’t hold my breath…
Just as with Fannie/Freddie, it’s time these entities went private, sank or swam-on their own, and recieve no more taxpayer dollars…It’s bad enough that Bill Moyers was on the taxpayers nickel during the Johnson administration-he sure doesn’t need to be any longer!
I mean, what about the furor over the taxpayers supporting high executive salaries..?
Well, crap, Maggie. You wrecked the base of my argument. But, I still can’t believe how much they make at NPR.
I have a 1979 Ford F-150 Ranger, Carin.
It’s my favorite vehicle.
We also have a Suburu Outback.
Guess that makes me an independent?
And I own both a Honda and a Plymouth. Guess I’m an independent too.
‘cept I’m not.
A Mercedes broke down more than any car I ever owned. Now I drive an American-made and feed it nothing but oil and gas. Replaced an alternator but other than that, no probs at all.
I drive a Saab. Does that make me Euro-socialist suicide loving user of SPF 1000?
um … What were we talking about again?
NPR’s highly-paid propaganda squad, BJ. That and the plight of womens what don’t get paid fair cause of stupid capitalisms.
um, cause there are no women accountants?
;D
This NPR, they’re in the entertainment field?
NPR provides a Valuable Public Service. They keep our eye muscles toned up from all the rolling and popping in disbelief of the load of puerile crap that just shat across our taxpayer-funded airwaves.
Parsnip: “Nobody knows America’s working class like the Toyota Republicans, JD?”
I’d love to know what country you’re living in, Parsnip — most of the liberal bumper-stickers out here are on “foreign” cars. My personal favorite bit of hypocrisy would be the “Kerry/Edwards” stickers on foreign SUVs –this close to the people’s republic of Massachusetts, they’re two a penny.
Besides, root-stock — Republicans are in favor of free trade, so where is the hypocrisy? T’is the Dems who want to save the bloated UAW contract on the backs of the common, increasingly non-unionized working stiff.
I have a feeling unions will make a comeback under Obama, Dread.
Now that most American “free market” companies get by on government subsidies.
It’ll be easier for them to, parsnip, with card check:
–“Sign the card.”
–“What’s it fo- *unk* ” (signer grabbed by collar)
–“Sign it NOW and we don’t pound you into the ground!”
–((signs card with shaky hand))
My wife’s a finance weenie, but she’s a better accountant than most accountants I’ve ever encountered.
She used to earn more than I did, but I passed her a few years back. She decided to de-emphasize her career, you see, so that we could take better care of the kids. Which I honor her for, and if there was a way to do it, I’d gladly credit her with a big share of my paycheck as well. I couldn’t be in a position to earn all of it if she was working full-time.
I personally don’t give a flying fuck what the staff at NPR is making, not that anyone asked.
Oh, and we do in fact happen to employ some military folks of respectable rank (brigadier, at least), here at Lockheed. We just don’t pay them “a couple of million a year”. I’d guess that most high-ranking military go to work for smaller companies, like this guy, a former Army Chief of Staff who was a Division Vice President (IIRC) at Coleman Research back in the 1990s. I doubt he was paid any number of millions, though; no one was.
OT: Gaia spits out some new animals to stick it to us walking planet viruses.
More like “we discover” (stumble upon?) what has already been there for millions of years than Gaia spits out though. We’re just a bit slower than she is I guess.
Hey – it costs a lot to have that free-range organic handwoven totally authentic lifestyle an NPR host must have. And the elocution lessons ain’t cheap either!
I personally don’t give a flying fuck what the staff at NPR is making, not that anyone asked.
Well, I’m not sure of the exact exchange rate of a flying fuck, but I do find it interesting.
sdferr – I was watching some idiocy on CNN earlier where they were talking about this, and I thought the same thing. It is likely only “new” for the person that found it. Mother Gaia prolly had it around for a long time, and we just needed time to catch up. But, since Baracky is going to cure everything, nothing to worry about.
How does one define a flying fuck, or what is the unit of measurement to guage same?
probably depends on how much the plane ticket was.
Hey ‘feets, seein’ how your the resident NPR savant, how much does the scrawny ferret woman pull down a year? Inquiring minds want to know.
well, um, guys, the President makes $400,000 now, I think. so there’s that.
That peanut head Brian Williams was talkin that maybe Michelle should get paid for all the fine work she will do.
Who in the world is scrawny ferret woman and why am I laughing so hard?
Terry Gross, JD. and ferrets are related to weasels which Dave Barry claims are hilarious in any situation.
One Flying F*ck = 10 Douchnozzles or 2 mendouchious douchnozzles.
Maggie – And Dave Barry would be correct. Especially ice weasels. I talked about ice weasels in a toast at a wedding reception once. Did not go over too well with those that were not really drunk. Now, to go completely off topic, Dave Barry’s Year in Review is something to look forward to every year. Comparing Terry Gross to a weasel is insulting to weasels.
Come now! Gaia reacts to what we do! We’re on the brink of killing her after only 150 years of spewing deadly plant food, er um, noxious hateful CO2 into the air! That’s why she’s making the nasssty snakes and pink spiky cyanide millipedes to get rid of us. The cute furry stripey bunny what tastes good is just a lure to get us within reach of the killer bitey bug things.
I think of Terry Gross as more like an unwrapped mummy with Barney Syndrome.
“I heart you, You heart me! We are a socialist entity…”
BJ is onto something here. But we need a larger unit of measurement to clearly define the nozzle known as snippy/sniffles/alftard.
Quando Giganto Mendouchious Douchnozzle.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of to give a flying fuck about such and such is equal to … what?
I enjoy the expression as much as the next gal, but was curious as to whether or not my mild interest was really that different than the “flying fuck” level of interest.
Truly, I may actually be interested in a flying fuck. I think I need more information, to be honest.
Now now, no need to be nasty.
We have NPR, you guys have Hee Haw.
It’s a fair deal.
It could be interesting come fundraiser time, though, if they had to state their salary. “Hi, I’m Barbara Rehm managing editor of NPR and we need your money for ‘programming’ I make $383,139 thanks to your generous donation.”
does anyone know if/how she’s related to Diane? just wondering if they might both have that voice that makes me want to cry.
Terry Gross, good lord – that woman gave the commencement speech at my niece’s college graduation.
Listening to it was like getting a organic green tea enema. Jaysus, the highbrow, low-key self-righteous was unbelievable.
Daughter, I think, maggie.
“Listening to it was like getting a organic green tea enema.”
Parsnip just got a woodie.
I kinda like Terry Gross.
I think parsnip likes NPR because he doesn’t have to move his lips to get the news.
Nah, that’s just your body telling you you have to go poo-poo, Kelly.
Huh?
Does driving an F250 make you more conservative than if you drive an F150? What about if you have a bumper sticker on the back bumper that shows the twin towers on fire and advises you that you should vote for your own survival? What about if you have a loaded Remington 870 Express behind the seat at all times? Knock on my fuckin’ door.
I did buy a Nissan once though. Great car.
I use a Glock to knock on fuckin’ doors with. And I load my own hollow-point ammo!
That’s thor, Kelly. Unfortunately he is off the meds today and the many voices in his head have taken over.
That’s not thor. It’s DarthRove.
“why don’t I fire all my current accountants and replace them with women, thus cutting my payroll by 30% without affecting output in the slightest”
30% cut in payrolls?
Why would anybody hire any male at any time?
BECAUSE OF THE PATRIARCHY!!!
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How does one define a flying fuck, or what is the unit of measurement to guage same?”
Furlongs per fortnight works.
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“Well, I think so, Brain, but if we didn’t have ears, we’d look like
weasels.”
Shut up thor.
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines”
“Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”
-Homer J. Simpson
To be fair to the Women’s Way advocacy group, they have to do something to appear to be relevant. Now that the major issues the women’s movement wanted addressed have either been codified into state and federal law, or become entrenched in the culture, there really isn’t anything for them to really justify the organization’s continued existence.
Actually arguing for things that are relevant today would be too much to ask as that would mean they would have to after other things that are too dear to the heart of the left – such as crime, schools, etc. It is easier to just refight battles that have been won than to pick a new fight and maybe tick off some of their reflexive supporters – and close the wallets those supporters have.
Why you you Rethuglikkkans hate everyone and everything?
Here ya go! Everything you always wanted to know about airplane sex [.pdf but it’s worth it]. It’s even got Thor demonstrating autofellatio (he’s an expert you know).
Oops! Okay, perhaps the Nancy Pelosi thing was funny in context, but not in this context. Frightening yes, but not funny.
On the other hand, she does spend a lot of time on a plane..
Bitter experience?
Listen up Leftcultist butt weasels!
We sock puppet you!
You don’t sock puppet us!
Do you hear me??????
WE ARE BETTER THAN YOU!!!11!seventy!!!&!@!1!!!
I don’t disagree, but I believe the more politically correct term is “twat”..
twatwaffle, to be precise.
I prefer the more internationally recognized perjorative: bint.
Got bint? would be a good bumpersticker.
Yes, but not a nice, homemade twatwaffle, more of a frozen, microwave twatwaffle..
NPR has four people making in the range of $300-$400k per year? WTFF?
Are they all sleeping with Senators or something?
Unbelievable.
“twatwaffle, to be precise.”
thor’s a twatwaffle.
A little past its expiration date too..
thor is really off its rocker, isn’t it?
Thor and Nanny..
Dry around the edges but too soggy in the middle..
thor and SanFranNan together is a thought so frightening that I do not recommend that you even consider the thought. And do not dare envision the mental picture.
Are you kidding? Even Ashley Dupre didn’t get that kinda salary..
Did she?
I think Thor is SanFranNan. Has anyone ever seen them in the same room? Shows what happens when you inject to botox a bit too deep, don’t it?
‘the botox’ dammit. I thought that needle looked a little long..
I don’t care how she votes because, yeah, the lady is effable, especially considering her age. Count me in.
I’m thor, btw. The real JD is up there.
Dear god, it made me thor..
At leatht I’m not alone..
I just threw up a little in my mouth..
Every sober hetero male over the age of 45 would tap Pelosi. She’s put together for pleasure.
Somebody please call the pharmacy.
What is wrong with these people?
“Comment by JD on 12/17 @ 4:54 pm #
thor and SanFranNan together is a thought so frightening that I do not recommend that you even consider the thought”
The entire universe would collapse into a black hole of stupidity.
If Gaia was a he (Gaio?) would we have to pay her more?
The entire universe would collapse into a black hole of stupidity.
Is that what we are witnessing now?
Spitzer was just a governor… Booty call salaries go up when the office goes national.
thor has the hots for Larry Craig, Pelosi is like a super model to him.