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from:msnbc.comAmerican women gain in school, lag at work
Seeded on Tue Mar 1, 2011 7:25 PM EST (msnbc.com)
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I can't believe the blatant lies in this article. If you control for the years of work experience and type of job women earn the same as men or more because of affirmative action policies pushed due to persistent lying from people in government and feminists. The reason the raw statistics look so bad have to do with life choices of women. If you take years off and only work part time or flex time to raise children of course you aren't going to make as much. If women want to make as much as men they have to devote the same amount of time to their career. That they don't is not discrimination. It is a personal life choice. And it doesn't warrant discrimination against men to fix this made up problem.
I have a suggestion for helping with the deficit, dissolve the white house council on women and girls and fire all the partisan misandrist feminist liars who work there.
Economic groups have concluded that about 40% of the pay gap cannot be explained by "choice" factors such as hours worked or time taken off to raise children (see congressional testimony on the most recent attempt at adjusting fair pay laws). We should additionally consider the ways in which those "choices" are often not exactly... choices. Women are often the parent that takes more time off because they already make less than their husbands or because there's so much pressure to be a "good mom" and take off more time or not work. I can still remember how women I've met in academia described being harassed for not staying home with their kids--being asked why they had them if they weren't going to raise them or receiving nasty anonymous messages.
This type of study is meaningless, because it includes an underlying assumption that men and women are equally good at all jobs. There is no basis for this kind of assumption.
All we should care about is specific instances in which the woman was better than the higher paid men, and still got less in pay. That would be wrong, and more importantly bad business practice.
One thing that occurs to me as to why salaries on average could be different is that men usually make better leaders than women do. If you picked the 100 best natural leaders in the world, it would not be 50/50. It would probably be 80/20 or 90/10.
The reason this skews the overall salary numbers is that leadership jobs pay more. So naturally, if we are picking the best candidates men would more often be in the high-priced leadership jobs, manager, CEO, vice president etc.
This kind of study that assumes we're identical in all respects and each sex is of course just as rational, logical, equal at math, equal in communication, equal in people skills, equal in leadership skills, is ridiculous.
Like I said, we should only care when the woman is clearly the best candidate and gets paid less than the men or is skipped over for promotion when she has the best qualifications for promotion.