Ready for a morning chuckle to jump-start your day? Pay a visit to Hillary Clinton’s website that claims with a straight face, “Women still earn significantly less money than men for doing the same jobs.” [www.hillaryclinton.com/video/13.aspx]
The first part of Hillary’s sentence is true – women indeed earn less than men. But the last four words – “for doing the same jobs” – is as laughable as Hillary’s dodging-sniper-bullets-in-Bosnia tale.
Let’s say you have a job opening and two persons apply who have identical skills and qualifications. Joe wants to be paid the prevailing wage, while Jackie says she is willing to work for only 77 cents on the dollar.
Who would you hire? Jackie, of course.
So if women are doing exactly the same work as men and getting paid 23% less, every profit-maximizing entrepreneur would hire only women. But last I heard, men are still getting jobs. Obviously there’s something wrong with the gender wage gap theory.
Last month Senator McCain was campaigning in the hard-scrabble coal fields of Kentucky. He commented that if women want to overcome the gender wage gap, they would need more “education and training.” And knowing that Women’s Studies grads might not realize that coal mining is the economic mainstay of the region, McCain then deadpanned, “traditionally, women have not gone into that line of work.”
But the Funny-Fems reflexively insist the culprit is sex discrimination, not women exercising the right to choose their preferred work. So when they heard Senator McCain’s comments, they flew into a purple-passion rage. Within days MoveOn rolled out its propaganda machine, making the claim that “Study after study has shown that women are paid less than men for the same work.”
That’s good for another belly laugh, of course, because in eastern Kentucky, the best paying jobs go to the sooty-faced men who are willing to descend 900 feet into the ground and hope a boulder doesn’t break loose from the mine roof. That’s what happened to Cornelius Yates, who was crushed to death in a Kentucky coal mine in January 2006.
Yates’ death came just a week after 12 miners were killed in a West Virginia mine explosion. And that followed a year in which nine miners died throughout Kentucky.
Not surprisingly, women are not very interested in doing hazardous jobs that may send them to the grave. Indeed study after study has shown that when differences in the type of work, hours on the job, and education are accounted for, women are treated fairly.
Actually, women may be doing better than men. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, in many fields female college grads are being offered higher starting salaries than their male counterparts.
Female physicists are getting $6,500 more. Co-eds who majored in petroleum engineering are being offered $4,400 more. And women computer programmers are being enticed with $7,200 extra pay. In fact for dozens of majors and occupations, women coming out of college are getting better offers than men, reveals Warren Farrell in his book, Why Men Earn More.
Why these disparities? Because in traditionally male-dominated professions, employers are willing to ante up more greenbacks to attract females in order to forestall a costly discrimination lawsuit.
So once again the radical left is caught red-handed, trying to push a socialist scheme that centralizes bureaucratic control and weakens free markets. That’s the approach that brought the Soviet economy to its knees 20 years ago.
The Sisters of Silliness are out of touch with the needs of women. By scorning the notion of education and disempowering women, they prove they are trying to force women into a dependency relationship at the porcine foot-stool of the government trough.
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amfortas said,
McCain tentatively approaches but barely hits home. His language mirrors the language ‘games’ of the feminist lobby.
They present the arguement in ‘less than’ terms, which people barely take notice of. Just think what an uproar there would be if the obverse arguement were to hit the headlines.
Headline:
“Men demand 23% more - wage inflation out of control”.
“Reports from the National Organisation of Women today show that men coerce employers into high pay and conditions and it is sending the country broke. Congress is to debate an urgent reining in of the Nations wages. Nancy Pelosi said today ‘All congressMEN should take a pay cut to come into line with my pay’.
President Bush called for wage ‘restraint’ so that other kinds of restraint aren’t needed. ‘We don’t want to see this extortion racket spread any further’, he was quoted. ‘America is becoming uncompetetive with India and we must pay men less, in line with the more reasonable women’s rate. A 23% across the board reduction in men’s wages will ultimately benefit us all. We will make a start with those darn Kentucky miners’ ”
Can you imagine how that would make people sit up. The debunkers would flood the airwaves and the front pages.
Now, THAT is what McCain should have said as a Lampoon.
May 14, 2008 at 10:34 pm
wheresmy40 said,
I’m still waitng for that all-female firehouse….or all-female aircraft carrier deck crew…..or all-female coal mining crew….The WNBA doesn’t count as it is probably subsidized by the NBA…you know, the all-male league.
May 15, 2008 at 5:20 am
khankrumthebulgar said,
May 15, 2008 at 6:49 am
Denis said,
That is true.
However, since HRC is enjoying the support of 80% of Democratic women, it appears that the women are more than willing to believe the nonsense from the HRC camp-and the feminists. Nobody is forcing these women to blindly accept these lies and distortions.
There is something in the psyche, the DNA, of many American women-and most Democratic women-that makes then want to believe all the gender lies they are being fed, without making any effort whatsoever to learn the truth. American women like thinking of themselves as victims of men.
And people want one of THEM running this country?
May 15, 2008 at 8:40 am
Denis said,
“The latest charge from the gender equity crowd is that women face widespread discrimination in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). They say government action (in the form of increased Title IX enforcement) is needed to correct this imbalance.”
Any guy voting for HRC is voting for increased discrimination against men (including their current and future sons):
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/AllisonKasic/2008/05/14/title_ix_not_the_answer_for_scientific_men%e2%80%99s_club
May 15, 2008 at 11:12 am
Denis said,
This just in:
The gay agenda juggernaut moves forward. The comments are interesting also for the following column:
http://www.townhall.com/news/us/2008/05/15/californias_top_court_overturns_gay_marriage_ban?page=full&comments=true
May 15, 2008 at 2:47 pm
FathersHaveNaturalRights said,
May 15, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Denis said,
Absolutely.
And there is no end in sight as long as men stay silent.
Women have an insatiable selfish instinct.
Only when circumstances negatively affect THEM will they consider the consequences of their own actions.
Men: their fathers…their husbands…their sons…these are ALL expendable to women.
Men everywhere should view the current situation as much bigger than their own lives-what is at stake is the future of every father’s son…and his son’s son…
May 15, 2008 at 9:03 pm
shatteredmen said,
I have not dated in years (next month, I will have been married for 30 years) but from what I see, the man still is expected to pay for all the dates and to get the gifts on other days such as Feb 14, Mothers day, and birthdays.
The Independent Women’s Forum has also shown that the pay gap is a myth so it is not just men saying it.
May 16, 2008 at 1:44 am
mruffolo said,
Yet America is now the world leader in gay rights, abortion, divorce, incarceration of men, and obesity.
I see the consequences f the bible when is advises that women remain silent in church and to be “ruled over a man” in the family.
May 16, 2008 at 2:10 pm
dads & things » Blog Archive » The Gender Wage Gap Myth said,
May 17, 2008 at 1:19 am
Denise Noe said,
May 17, 2008 at 8:03 am
FathersHaveNaturalRights said,
But also, men pay the extra price of getting less time to be at home, and less family time. Where is the compensation for men missing their children’s first step, first word, first smiles.
There isn’t any. Men need to stop conceding the home and family sphere to women. Changing that is the only way the fatherhood movement can ever succeed.
June 10, 2008 at 4:49 pm