Comments on: Hiding the Truth About the Pay Gap Between Men and Women

By: realist

realist — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:29:17 +0000

HELP FREEEEEE THE STRIPPERS AND PROSTITUTES OF THE WORLD. WE ARE ALL HUMAN. WE ALL DESERVE TO BE TREATED EQUALLY. AND YOU WONDER WHY WOMEN GOLDIG.

By: tara

tara — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 08:25:05 +0000

and you wonder why we srtip and use sex for money..

By: p3orion

p3orion — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:45:48 +0000

“..women earn ’78 cents for ever dollar that is earned by a man doing the same job with the same responsibilities.’ ”

Sure, if you figure it strictly on those black-and-white terms. However, as liberals love to point out, the shades of gray in the issue change things a bit. When you also control for experience, education, hours worked, full-time versus part-time, etc., women make as much or more than men.

Hiring managers aren’t stupid. While I’m sure there are still some misogynistic cavemen out there (just as there are some unrepentant racists) they mostly just want to get the job done, and will hire whoever they need, at the wage they need to pay.

It’s worth noting that while the national unemployment rate has been fluttering just below 10% for months, the rate for women is a only about 7.5%; who’s being discriminated against for their sex now? In all likelihood, no one.

By: blogengeezer

blogengeezer — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:34:55 +0000

So working High Steel, building skyscrapers and bridges, a man standing on a beam 70 stories up, guiding in a steel girder will make the same as a woman, I agree, depending on the equal number of girders she guides or the number of welds, bolts or rivets. BTW how many women are in that well paying line of work that only attracts a specific demographic? maybe the new congress, in the name of equality, should mandate on each job, the same number of women High Iron workers as men….Whether they want to or not…being forced to work the job is the next step… on our highway to Communism. DaFlikkers

By: Ann Bares

Ann Bares — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:35:16 +0000

Interesting article and discussion. As a compensation consultant, one who spends her days opening the hood and looking at the inner workings of compensation programs, I have a number of concerns about this legislation – the Paycheck Fairness Act in particular. See more information at -

http://compforce.typepad.com/compensation_force/2008/08/heads-up-us-hou.html

http://compforce.typepad.com/compensation_force/2009/01/a-missing-link-to-paycheck-fairness.html

http://compforce.typepad.com/compensation_force/2009/01/summary-thoughts-on-the-paycheck-fairness-act.html

By: Tcobb

Tcobb — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:28:33 +0000

As the saying goes, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. I remember hearing about a study that someone did comparing the income levels of Americans of Irish descent versus that of Americans of Italian descent. Much to the surprise of the person making the study there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups, which seemed intuitively bizarre. Then someone took the same data and broke it down further by age groups. Surprise, surprise–when you compared the incomes of the two groups broken down by age it turned out there was no statistically significant difference in income between the two groups.

I have often wondered whether the income disparities that are cited across gender and racial lines don’t suffer from the same type of statistical myopia.

By: zimmy

zimmy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:19:17 +0000

Seems like LouAnn ‘feels’ that only women are allowed to complain. They’ve been doing that since Betty Friedans book in ’63. Thousands of books later, many tens of thousands of articles and constant male bashing isn’t enough for womyn like her. How dare men actually have a point.

Her failure to logically respond to the point about men being 93% of all job related deaths is telling. Her dodge that men are the ones who breathe pollutants, work in coal mines; do long-distance truck driving, etc, etc is also telling. In the case of trucking, many men are away from their families for days at-a-time while the wife is at home (with the kids?).

Women like LouAnn are not honest with themselves; their pathological agenda gets in the way of linear and honest discourse. That’s why in the long run their self-serving dishonesty is a lost cause. Too bad that in the meantime so many men will be negatively affected by such feminist dogma.

By: Robert Swords

Robert Swords — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:55:35 +0000

This has gone on since the 70′s. I find it all rather ridiculous and childish for both sides to engage in this senseless debate. Men don’t have some of the options on the job that women have such as maternity leave, able to leave early to pick up kids from daycare(if this exists) and such. I think the only thing to consider for anyone in a job is whoever is the most able bodied person for the task.

By: JB

JB — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:19:43 +0000

Hey LouAnn, Lay off Steve. If you have a point make it. He made his & your only point is HOW he made his point. So is Steve right or wrong? Focus dear.

By: LouAnn

LouAnn — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:28:38 +0000

Steven Deluca: “Bottom line, Women much more so than men, have a partner willing to work long hours while SHARING his pay. She can choose fewer hours, more comfort and safety.”

When I took a lower-level job in an effort to pare down my hours, I was working and my husband was not, so I didn’t do because everything was “safe.” If we had not always lived a frugal lifestyle, I couldn’t have even attempted to slow down my manic pace.

“So now we will have white-collar feminist women in nice offices telling us that those blue-collar men breathing pollutants, dying young, or risking losing limbs and lives, really do have less value than their sisters sipping coffee in warm offices trying to figure out how to get money from blue-collar men for white-collar women.”

It’s clear how bitter you are judging by your choice of words. You remind me of my brother, who I get along with well, surprisingly. I think I’m the only female he tolerates. But all that spitting, seething bitterness about women … someday he’ll explode and I’ll be visiting him behind bars. And you …?