A Tangled Web

LOWER WAGES FOR WOMEN IS GOOD NEWS!



Just one second before you report me to Germaine Greer ( andoy, is SHE a wacko or what?). I am pleased to report that;



"An Aug. 26 report from the U.S. Census Bureau stated that the median female full-time wage for women was 75.5 cents for every dollar similarly earned by men; that's down .6 percent from 2002. Gender feminists quickly cried "discrimination is increasing!" ...BUT... "women have fewer years of work experience, work fewer hours per year, are less likely to work a full-time schedule, and leave the labor force for longer periods of time than men."....



Indeed, when you factor out variables like having children, the wage gap virtually disappears. In their book "Women's Figures" (1999), economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba meticulously compared data on the earnings of childless men and women aged 27 to 33. They found that the wage gap shrank to 98 cents"



Now - don't you feel better - only 2 cents to go to parity!



From Dissecting Leftism.