Obama has a new ad out pushing the “wage gap” myth. As we’ve discussed many times, men earn more than women on average for many legitimate reasons. These include:
1) Men work longer hours at more demanding and hazardous jobs.
2) Men are more likely to travel, relocate or have long commutes for their jobs.
3) Men are more likely to have more years and more consecutive years of experience, because women are more likely to work part time or take years off of work to care for their children.
Given these factors, it would be very hard for men to not earn considerably more than women. When men and women of matched qualifications are working in matched jobs, women earn as much as men do.
One interesting thing about the ad: while in general Republican candidate John McCain has been just as craven as Obama in pandering to women on the wage gap, this ad claims McCain said women concerned about making less than men need “more education and training.”
That’s not exactly true, but it suggests that on some level McCain might be willing to publicly acknowledge that there are other factors behind the wage gap than discrimination.
If he does, of course, Obama and the feminists will attack him for “blaming women” for the wage gap. My prediction is that McCain will never say much of anything on this, but I’ll be happy to be wrong.
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The fact is that men and women of the same age and experience, doing the same work, are paid differently. That’s chauvinism. Now racism, as the figures (for 2006, the last year for which they are available show), is still a great factor than sex, but always, always, women make less, no matter what it is. Because they make the most, white men’s scores is given as 100%. All others are given as percentages of white men’s wages.
White men Black men Hispanic
100 72.1 57.5
White Women Black women Hispanic Women
73.5 63.6 51.7
Now, if you don’t think something is wrong with this picture, I don’t know how to help you.
The fact remains that the wage gap is largely a myth.If it does occur,we`ve already explained why.Despite what some liberals or brainwashed women would choose to believe,men and women on average do NOT work the same jobs or the same way,and are NOT entitled to identical wages.As noted in the article,men do tend to work more hours and more dangerous and dirty jobs.They are rightfully rewarded for this.The bottom line is that wage disparities occur because of mens and womens different job choices and different levels of job committment,NOT sexism or discrimination.After all,given the myriad of employment policies to prohibit the latter,how could it possibly be blamed on that.