Take Action to Close the Gap
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Hello Men: you suffer too when you pay women less than you pay men for comparable work. I don’t mean to blame everything on men, but the reality is men still dominate management positions in this country. They hold 85 percent of all board seats, the majority of executive positions, and run 95 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500.
My husband knows the drill. If I bring home less than my fair share of wages, then he, a stay-at-home-father, has less money to run the household. Less money for groceries, less money for the kids, less money to pay the bills, less money to fill the gas tank, less money for his fantasy football team (it costs money to manage a team).
Why are we talking about this now? It’s not Equal Pay Day; the one day a year this subject gets any significant attention. And President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act back in January. Here’s why: The. Wage. Gap. Has. Widened. That’s right. Last year’s data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed women earning, on average .78 cents for every dollar a man earned. The new data shows women are earning .77 cents. That’s. Not. Progress.
Not only is it not progress (and not fair). It’s foolish. With traditional male dominated jobs hit hardest by the recession, there will soon be more women on the national payroll then there are men. If these women are earning less than their fair share, their families, and the economy will suffer. Groceries, gasoline, doctor’s bills – none of it becomes 23 percent less expensive when a woman is paying for it. And if families are living off less than fair wages, there is less available income to pour back into the supposed recovering economy.
It’s not just my husband who should be upset by the wage gap. We need to reverse the trend and close the gap. Click here to take action and send a message: No More Pay Discrimination on the Basis of Gender.
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Now there’s the key – “comparable” work. Who makes these comparisons? Why are comparisons necessary at all? The fact is and the Law is that females get equal pay for equal work. Not “comparative” work. So there’s nothing stopping females from becoming underground miners or garbage collectors or sewerage workers or riggers etc. All these occupations are highly paid boys clubs. I never hear females saying there should be equal numbers of male and female garbos. Why aren’t females screaming for equal numbers of men and females in dangerous jobs so that an equal number of females are killed at work every year?
The fact that females earn less than men is testament to the fact that females won’t do overtime (paid or unpaid) like men, and they only work in nice clean airconditioned places generally Monday to Friday and they work less than men (eg there are as many part time female workers as full time female workers). If a female works 20 hrs a week should she get the same pay as a man who works 57 hrs a week underground? Feminists say yes because this is Marxist Communism. You may not have realised that Marxist Communism was a resounding disaster and mainly for the average Joe.