The assumption of the Jarrett-backed law is that the sexes are equal in capacity, aptitude, drive and interest, and if there is a disparity in pay, only bigotry can explain it.
But are there not other, simpler answers for why women earn less?
Perhaps half of American women leave the job market during their lives, sometimes for decades, to raise children, which puts them behind men who never leave the workforce. Women gravitate to teaching, nursing, secretarial and service work, which pay less than jobs where men predominate: mining, manufacturing, construction and the military.
Over 95 percent of our 40,000 dead and wounded from Afghanistan and Iraq were men. Men in prison outnumber women 10 to one. Is that the result of sex discrimination?
Sports have become a national obsession, and among the most rewarded professions in fame and fortune. And TV viewers prefer to watch male athletes compete in baseball, basketball, football, hockey, golf, tennis and boxing.
Is unequal pay for men and women professional athletes a matter for the government?
Larry Summers lost his job as president of Harvard for suggesting that women have less aptitude for higher math and that may explain why they are underrepresented on Ivy League faculties in the sciences, economics and math. Would not that male aptitude help explain why men are dominant in investment banking and corporate finance, where salaries are among the highest?
Friday, September 24, 2010
Buchanan on the gender pay gap
You don't have to agree with everything Pat Buchanan writes to acknowledge that he's a rare instance these days of a man in the mainstream media with balls. (And Ann Coulter, of course):
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I'm glad you like Coulter too. I've always felt she doesn't get enough respect in the "Alt-Right" blogosphere. She was one of my first introductions to anti-PC - I remember watching her and thinking, "well that makes sense, why does everyone hate her so much???"
ReplyDeleteCondivido pienamente il suo punto di vista. Ritengo che questa sia un'ottima idea. Pienamente d'accordo con lei.
ReplyDeleteE 'vero! Ritengo che questa sia un'ottima idea.
Yeah great article. He goes after far more than the bogus male/female pay gap to. He goes to the heart of PC lies on egalitarian extremism.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is, the NY Times hasn't exactly published this as a guest editorial or column.
The MSM is the real undergirding of PC lying in so many ways.
>"he's a rare instance these days of a man in the mainstream media with balls. (And Ann Coulter, of course)"
ReplyDeleteWell, that would explain the Adam's apple.