Wage Gap: "A Bargain At 77 Cents To a Dollar?"

Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2007-04-03 16:24

Article here. Excerpt:

"Women make similar trade-offs all the time. Surveys have shown for years that women tend to place a higher priority on flexibility and personal fulfillment than do men, who focus more on pay. Women tend to avoid jobs that require travel or relocation, and they take more time off and spend fewer hours in the office than men do. Men disproportionately take on the dirtiest, most dangerous and depressing jobs."

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Here is a video of Hillary Clinton lying, yes lying (big time), about the wage gap myth, and she has the audacity to post it prominently on her "Hillary for President" web site. Hillary specifically cites Wimbledon in her Presidential Ad, where women now receive "equal pay" for "unequal work."

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/13.aspx

Wimbledon opposed "equal pay" for "unequal work."
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SPORT/04/25/tennis.wimbledon/index.html?section=edition_sport

"Phillips said because top men rarely play in Grand Slam doubles events, they earn less overall than women. In addition, the men play best-of-five set matches, while the women play best-of-three.

"It just doesn't seem right to us that the lady players could play in three events and could take away significantly more than the men's champion who battles away through these best-of-five matches," he added."

Here are the facts from the Independent Women's Forum, in an April 3, 2007 article in The Washington Post, about the differences in pay that men and women earn. Did anyone every hear about things like seniority and choice of job?

http://tinyurl.com/2e8fb2

"Yes, the Labor Department regularly issues new data comparing the median wage of women who work full time with the median wage of men who work full time, and women's earnings bob at around three-quarters those of men. But this statistic says little about women's compensation and the influence of discrimination on men's and women's earnings. All the relevant factors that affect pay -- occupation, experience, seniority, education and hours worked -- are ignored. This sound-bite statistic fails to take into account the different roles that work tends to play in men's and women's lives."

A little background on the "Big Lie."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie

"The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique developed by Adolf Hitler, and documented in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf which consists of telling a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously'".

"...people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it." - Joseph Goebbels

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Submitted by MR on Wed, 2007-04-04 00:03