Equal Pay Day
For those of you that have read me for any amount of time, you know that I am not a feminist nor do I support feminist causes.
April is complaint month for the movement and today is Equal Pay Day! Townhall has this piece and it nails my feeling on equal pay and equal treatment in the workplace!
National Organization for Women and National Council of Women’s Organizations lament the disparity between men’s and women’s wages. Feminists groups claim that the first four months of the year were spent making up for last year’s gap. On April 25, women have finally earned as much as men in 2005.
There’s one problem with Equal Pay Day”the premise is bogus. Department of Labor data confirms that the median wage of a full-time working woman is three-quarters of that of a full-time working man, but like too many statistics, this fact ignores more than it reveals. This data doesn’t account for relevant factors such as occupation, experience and educational attainment.
Feminists may not like it, but the evidence shows that women’s choices”not discrimination”cause wage gap. Warren Farrell ” a former board member of the National Organization for Women’s New York chapter ” identifies 25 decisions that individuals make when choosing jobs in his book, Why Men Earn More. Women, he finds, are much more likely to make decisions that increase their quality of life, but decrease their pay.
Most people understand that many women often take time out of the workforce to care for family members, particularly young children. Even women who work full-time log fewer hours in the office on average than full-time working men. It is common sense that a worker who remains employed continually is going to make more than someone who drops out of the workforce for several years.
Working less is just one of the decisions women make that results in less take-home pay. Women also avoid dangerous jobs (more than nine in ten occupational deaths occur among men) and jobs that place them outdoors in the elements. Women are less willing than men to move for a job or travel frequently. Dr. Farrell’s book provides a roadmap for how individual women can increase their earnings, by making different choices, including working more hours in the office, assuming more risks or relocating for a job.
April 26, 2006 - 06:57 AM on April 26th, 2006
Yeah it looks like the witches at NOW wants equial pay they should do the same amount of work that will garner it:lol:
April 26, 2006 - 09:34 AM on April 26th, 2006
Wow. That is one of the most disgusting things I have heard on this board.
And, Peejz “not a feminist nor do I support feminist causes”…shame on you.
You are a woman, for christs sake!
Are you even aware of the opportunities you have now because of the advances of the feminist movement?!?!?
Say all you want about modern feminists, but the movement as a whole has been undeniably effective and necessary.
April 26, 2006 - 06:23 PM on April 26th, 2006
Are you even aware of the opportunities you have now because of the advances of the feminist movement?!?!?You mean that I can get an abortion?
What exactly did they do for me? I have the brain and the GPA to get the job, so what did they do for me? Women in my family have been educated at universities since the 1920’s, so I don’t think they did that for me..