Don’t Blame Discrimination for Gender Wage Gap

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2012-08-14 16:22

Article here. Excerpt:

'It’s a staple of feminist rhetoric: Women make less money than men because of discrimination.

“We’d all like to think, in 2012, that pay discrimination is a thing of the past,” the progressive activist Joy Lawson wrote in the Huffington Post recently. “But the pay gap still exists, and it’s big: women earn an average of 77 cents on a man’s dollar.”

April 17 has been designated Equal Pay Day: Supposedly that’s how long women have to work to catch up to men’s pay from the previous year.

U.S. President Barack Obama has cited a similar statistic to promote legislation to make it easier to sue employers for discrimination. Democrats accuse Republicans who resist such laws of waging a “war on women.” Expect to hear more about the issue during the fall campaign.

Here’s the truth you won’t hear: The pay gap is exaggerated, discrimination doesn’t drive it and it’s not clear that government can eliminate it -- or should even try.'

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Some commenter mentioned "The Patriarchy" being behind the wage gap.

I had the same thoughts years ago about a group called "The Patriarchy" and decided I may as well form my own group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ThePatriarchy/

Why, over at "The Patriarchy" there's an email list from Patriarchy Central that sends out edicts to men around the world. You can even apply for a Male Privileges™ card at maleprivileges@msn.com!

It's sort of defunct now, but we had a great time at our Patriarchs conferences and the root beer was free.

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Submitted by mens_issues on Wed, 2012-08-15 21:46