Paycheck Fairness Act Will Fatten Paychecks for Trial Lawyers, not Women

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'The study concludes that “the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.”

And yet the Senate will vote this week on “The Paycheck Fairness Act,” which according to the American Association of University Women is a critical piece of legislation that “can help create a climate where pay discrimination is not tolerated, and give the new administration the enforcement tools it needs to make real progress on pay equity.”

But the government’s own report by the Department of Labor concludes that there is no gender wage gap or pay discrimination once all relevant variables that impact wages are considered. And another recent study found that single, childless women between the ages of 22 and 30 out-earn their male counterparts by as much as 21 percent in large cities, and by 8 percent on average in urban areas, largely because young women are better educated than young men. This is more evidence that labor markets operate efficiently and discrimination against women has largely been eliminated by competitive market forces and the enforcement of existing laws by federal agencies, and additional federal antidiscrimination legislation is therefore unnecessary.'

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