Here’s How Hillary Clinton Could Hike The Gender Wage Gap

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'One of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s flagship economic ambitions for getting more women in the workforce could have the opposite effect of widening the very gender pay she has campaigned so hard to narrow.
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A key ambition of the Democratic front-runner is to raise the female labor force participation rate after stagnating for close to two decades. To that end, Hillary trumpeted the virtues of paid family leave as well as the reform of sick days.

Data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), however, shows there could be a link between more liberal parental leave policies and a higher gender wage gap.
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Since Hillary’s speech Monday, analysts have warned of the potential unintended consequences of using policy tools to hike the female labor participation rate. “Once again, we find examples of government overreach into wages and labor markets backfiring on the very people it is trying to protect,” Adam Smith Institute Research Associate Kate Andrews told TheDCNF.

“The gender pay gap has been debunked for the myth that it is; women are not earning less than their male counterparts on the whole because of employer discrimination, but rather because many women make different lifestyle choices that do not value a high salary above all else,” she added.'