A Time-honored Liberal Canard

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A rare op-ed originally run in a mainstay liberal rag...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/28/kamala_harriss_equal_pay_hoax_140426.html

 

 

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...The implication, of course, is that employers routinely discriminate against women in determining wages.

“It is just a fact,” Harris told MSNBC. “It’s not a debatable point.”

Actually, it is. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 already prohibits employers from paying men and women differently for the same jobs. And Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws sex-based employment discrimination of any kind. (Notably, Massachusetts outlawed wage discrimination in 1945.)

 

As Harris no doubt knows, the 80-cents-on-the-dollar statistic is deliberately misleading. It is based on a raw comparison of the average yearly pay of all female workers and all male workers — irrespective of profession, job category, experience, training, college major, hours worked, or other relevant factors.

 

...studies that compare single childless women to single childless men, ages 35 to 43, have found that these women earn more — not less — than their male counterparts.

 

The truth is, studies that compare the earnings of similarly situated men and women show a wage gap of only 2 percent (98 cents for every dollar earned by a man).

So why does Harris imply that the gap is so large and that the average employer deliberately pays women less than men? And why is she pushing a plan that pressures companies to eliminate flexible workplace arrangements?

In this era of identity politics, victimization is coin of the realm.

 

 

Count on hearing more about this unequal pay bullshit during the campaigns.  Also count on the majority of MSM doing next-to-nothing (or just plain nada) to speak the truth about it.

 

[I AM IRONMAN]

9 hours ago, Sportsnut said:

Punks for life on this board.

Going to cry more snowflake?