Even my local ‘news’ radio station, KNX 1070, read the usual political press release with the 78cents to $1 “wage gap” …
Mistakes this big are not innocent.
How many times have you heard that, for the same work, women receive 77 cents for every dollar a man earns? This alleged unfairness is the basis for the annual Equal Pay Day observed each year about mid-April to symbolize how far into the current year women have to work to catch up with men’s earnings from the previous year. If the AAUW is right, Equal Pay Day will now have to be moved to early January.
The AAUW has now joined ranks with serious economists who find that when you control for relevant differences between men and women (occupations, college majors, length of time in workplace) the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing. The 23-cent gap is simply the average difference between the earnings of men and women employed “full time.” What is important is the “adjusted” wage gap-the figure that controls for all the relevant variables. That is what the new AAUW study explores.
Come on. If liberals can’t lie, they’ve got nothing.
The gap between gross income and “take-home” pay is far more obscene. And if you factor in total cost of government, including prices inflated because of regulatory compliance costs, the 4th of July isn’t even Independence Day anymore.
Funny, I just got an e-mail from CA Legal Aid that used the 77% stat.
I never give them one dime when I pay my bar fees. I think I got on their sucker list because the firm donated the cash they got from used office furniture sales.
Thanks guys.
they should get paid more cause of all the penis-rape they have to endure in college I think
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The Clinton WH was the purest expression of Rape Culture, Male Privilege, and Slut Shaming that ever existed. By all means, #Hillary2016!
Just sayin’
obamacare fyi
somewhere between $10,5oo – $9500 net income on turbo tax the $95 penalty for not having health insurance is magically waived.
Y’know, if Cuba is coming off the terror sponsoring nations list per the ClownDisaster, how’s about Congress considering putting PresidentIVotePresentAndWonPenPhone on it?
Decades ago, Phil Donohue had on his talk show a bunch of feminists complaining about the fact that “traditionally female” jobs like elementary school teacher were paid less money than “traditionally male” jobs like garbage collector, and hey, aren’t the people who nurture our Precious Children™ worth more than people who take out our garbage?
My reaction was that any female teacher who thinks garbage collectors are overpaid should go apply to be a garbage collector and rake in those fat stacks.
Oh, but they won’t, because they like a job where they can work nine months a year in a climate-controlled building more than one where they could freeze their asses off or sweat profusely, and end a shift smelling like rotten vegetables.
So the only way to assure equality of the genders is for some women to be forced to work as garbage collectors. But I thought feminists were “pro choice”.
Dicentra wins the Inner-Webs!…
The Clinton WH was the purest expression of Rape Culture, Male Privilege, and Slut Shaming that ever existed. By all means, #Hillary2016!
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It’s always nice to see the AAUW break through its BS ceiling.
Why doesn’t anyone ever question why entertainers and athletes get paid so much?
Greetings, bgbear: ( @ April 15, 2015 at 11:18 am )
I grew up in the Bronx of the ’50s and ’60s and basketball was the way I preferred to misspend my youth, so why athletes got paid so much was often a subject of discussion (even though by today’s rates, well, not so much). The conclusion we reached and accepted went something like this: the salaries the athletes received were represented payments for all the hours of basketball played by those who never got paid.