Pay, for instance.
Today, April 28, marks Equal Pay Day this year -- the day that symbolizes how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to catch up with what the average man earned in 2008 here in the U.S.
It was a good step forward earlier this year when President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. The Ledbetter Act will give women some options when they discover that they've been victims of pay discrimination.
But there is more to be done.
To that end, the Paycheck Fairness Act is under consideration in the Senate. It passed the House in January.
The National Women's Law Center summarizes the bill as follows:
The Paycheck Fairness Act, introduced in both the House (H.R. 12) and the Senate (S. 182) and passed by the House on Jan. 9, 2009, would update and strengthen the Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963. The Act would deter wage discrimination by closing loopholes in the EPA and barring retaliation against workers who disclose their wages. The bill also allows women to receive the same remedies for sex-based pay discrimination that are currently available to those subject to discrimination based on race and national origin.What's not to like?
How you can help:
>> Urge your Senators to support the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Learn more:
>> View fact sheets, congressional testimony, and other information about the Act.
Nothing's not to like... if self interest is all that matters to you.
ReplyDeleteBut if you care about the truth, there's a problem.
Have a look at the major study on the gender wage gap conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor... and covered up by the Obama administration.
http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf
The Department of Labor report is available here.
ReplyDeleteRS, the CONSAD report you cite is beside the point here. So you're using a straw man.
ReplyDeleteThe Fair Pay Act isn't about guaranteeing equal pay for different types/hours of work. It's about cracking down on discrimination, in which a woman is paid less than a man for doing the same kind of work for the same number of hours.
The same kind of work by what standard? The standard of any woman who wants to file a law suit?
ReplyDeleteYou better have another look at the CONSAD report.
You might also consider the fact that there is no pay gap when you look at the complete picture... for the same work, under the same conditions, with the same level of expertise, education, training and experience, with the same amount of vacation and off time, with the same hours per week and with the same benefits and total compensation.
This 8 part video series sheds a great deal of light on the subject. Here's part 1. Here's part 2.
Here's a very enlightening book on the subject by a former three time board member of the National Organization for Women.
RS, you claim that there's no pay gap for "the same conditions, with the same level of expertise, education, training, and experience" etc. So then was Lilly Ledbetter lying???
ReplyDeleteI don't know if she way lying or not.
ReplyDeleteTampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Geno Hayes was stabbed in the head by his girlfriend. When he got the scissors away from her, she stabbed him in the neck with a knife. He was hospitalized for the serious injuries. If his girlfriend is convicted, should we create the "Geno Hayes Law", or the "Violence Against Linebackers Act"?
The powerful academic, media and political feminist machinery in this country consciously and admittedly build myths based on falsehoods all the time to advance the power of women. They've very successfully propagated a myth-based meme that women are paid less than men as the result of discrimination. Society has bought it, BIG TIME.
When you prime your society to believe a lie or gross distortion, and then arm perceived victims to create a whole new class of victimhood based, lucrative
litigation and a new victimhood bureaucracy, you HAVE advanced the power of women. But you haven't made the world a better place.
The whole feminist machine is fueled by the funding of victimhood bureaucracies. Out of ignorance, chivalry or political ambition, most in our society are eager to support efforts to overcome every class of female victimhood that feminism can dream up. Education is a prime example. Out society spends many billions on female specific scholarships to promote the academic advancement of women. The catalog of these academic scholarships is 590 pages long, and growing every year. You know how big the catalog of male specific academic scholarships is?
Have a look at this chart showing degrees granted to women and men by U.S. degree granting institutions. The AAUW says it's not a problem. Could you tell me why these "victims" need billions in gender specific scholarships? Could you tell me why the feminist machine declared the "girl crisis" in the midst of this? Could you tell me whether you believe any of these circumstances represent injustice? Could you tell me how these situations came about, why they persists and whether the reasons for them also apply to other feminist causes, such as the Paycheck Fairness Act?
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce took this action when the CONSAD report was taken down at the Department of Labor's web site.
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