Lis Wiehl propagates false statistics

This is a complete lie Liz and you should be ashamed for suggesting it isn’t.

I work in the semiconductor industry. We actually pay women engineers MORE than men right out of college – because there are allegedly not enough women engineers in the industry.

If women are making 73 cents for every dollar a man makes, then perhaps she isn’t as reliable, flexible, driven, or accommodating to her employer, as are men.

But to suggest that this is the rule is a complete lie.

I have asked 3 different Human Resource managers – all of whom were women, by the way, on why there would EVER be a discrepancy in pay.

They all answered pretty much the same way – any pay discrepancy is based on the performance of the individual. PERIOD!

If a woman makes the same sacrifices as men, makes herself available to the employer, takes the overtime, takes the special assignments, takes the highly responsible projects, and does the travel, then they can and will be paid as much as men.

Anything less would be against the law!

To lump together all of women’s jobs with all of men’s jobs and try to extract something meaningful from the data – is simply irresponsible. If you are a quality investigator, you will dig in to any differences and see that women make other choices than men do. And their pay reflects those choices. Women work far more part time jobs – as just one example. These rarely pay $120K per year!

So next time you see a girl entering college going for that English degree or women’s studies degree – you might encourage her to take some sciences. Do the hard stuff. It pays better.

There is a reason that men are attracted to the sciences and engineering – this is where the money has been historically. And historically men have been expected to provide for their families. Check out the psychology departments or social sciences departments at universities. In most cases you will find far more women than men. Are these subjects interesting? Yes. Are job prospects appealing in these areas? No! The jobs available tend to be far less paying – and if a person wants to raise a family with expectations of buying a home and staying off of the government dole, probably far less appealing.

Best Regards,

oregon dad

All this "in spite of" a 51% majority? What does being a majority have to do with domestic violence or salary? It might have something to do with representation on the courts, but if we are going to use that mentality, then perhaps the Supreme Court should be: 2 Blacks, 2 Hispanic, 1 Jewish, 1 Buddhist monk, 1 uncertain origin, 1 homosexual Sunni with a disability, and 1 aboriginal New-Guinean highlander. Of course 51% of them would have to be women, excluding the Buddhist monk..oh oh, I hear China already: "Why can onry man be monk? It disclimination!"

-axo

Did I also mention, one Jehovah's Witness, agent orange veteran from Saskatchewan, who was abused as a child by the family emu?

-axo