More Leftist Dogma Dies
CONSAD found that controlling for career interruption and other factors reduced the pay gap from about 20 percent to about 5 percent. Data limitations prevented it from considering many other factors. For example, the data did not permit an examination of total compensation, which would examine health insurance and other benefits, and instead focused solely on wages paid. The data were also limited with respect to work experience, job tenure, and other factors.
The Labor Department’s conclusion was that the gender pay gap was the result of a multitude of factors and that the “raw wage gap should not be used as the basis for [legislative] correction. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of individual choices being made by both male and female workers.”
That line is from the Labor Dept. Now before the ladies take to the torches let me say that in my experience the average American Woman does more than the average American Male. Our society has invented this idea of the Super Woman and many live up to the standard. Not that I am suggesting that we men are slackers.
The disclosure of the above pretty much indicates a parity in pay scales. Therein lies the rub. If it is parity then a cornerstone of the feminist movement drops off a cliff. Fact the biggest one of all. The howls from the Left have already commenced. That is why the Labor Dept tried to bury that portion of the report.
If the outcome of the Labor report become conventional wisdom in the land then the essential cornerstone for the feminist movement dies with it. And with that, so would the feminists. Pay disparity is what started the movement and has been a essential component of its campaign. Bereft of this essential they become indistinguishable from the pro abortion movement of which they are a part.
Now I would point out that what the Labor dept report does not consider is the dual role women serve in our society. The family half of which their report does not consider. (Sorry guys.) The anecdotal evidence is provided by the typical 6yo kid who asks Dad first, he being the softer touch. We may have reached equal pay, but there are other factors.
Did someone say Super Woman?