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In reply to the discussion: 49 Years After Kennedy Signed The Equal Pay Act, Women Still Earn 77 Cents To A Man’s Dollar [View all]MightyOkie
(68 posts)28. Well said.
There was a debate over this very issue about one month ago between some talking heads on cable. IIRC, discrimination accounted for roughly 5-10% of the disparity.
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49 Years After Kennedy Signed The Equal Pay Act, Women Still Earn 77 Cents To A Man’s Dollar [View all]
SunsetDreams
Jun 2012
OP
Seriously? A woman's part time employer should pay her more because she does more household work?
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#27
What is it about plumbing, welding and garbage collection that precludes women?
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#70
A female welder should absolutely earn the same hourly wage as an equally accomplished male welder.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#79
Romney would work to get that to women earning 50 cents or less to a man’s dollar. n/t
RKP5637
Jun 2012
#2
the fact that women have a bachelor's degree doesn't tell you much. what's the degree in?
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#91
Young metropolitan women are better educated and make more money than their male peers?
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#16
What about singled, divorced and widowed women? They are usually the ONLY breadwinners.
spooky3
Jun 2012
#7
Again, HOURS TO HOURS women get paid less given all RELAVENT JOB FACTORS. Now if you want to
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#57
the 77% statistic doesn't compare hours to hours. it compares full-time workers to full-time
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#88
if you experienced discrimination, why wouldn't you file suit? why would you care about people
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#116
right, attorneys never take discriminations cases. you want other people to help highly paid
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#137
how does posting a half-dozen "lols" with eye-rolling avatars make you tired? it's not exactly
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#145
read Prof. Francine Blau's and other experts' MULTIVARIATE research on pay issues
spooky3
Jun 2012
#23
here's one of doctor blau's papers (2000). she looks at various countries & their ratio of male to
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#106
that's an article from msnbc. other people post research articles and you ignore them.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#92
yes, & i trust the media to report research accurately like i trust the mafia. seen them
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#103
gosh you're annoying. as my criticism of all these posts that blare "TWENTY-THREE PERCENT WAGE
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#105
that attitude will win you lots of supporters & voters among low-wage women, i'm sure.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#109
that's exactly what it is. they just compared the median wage of all male v. female workers
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#96
So you're saying MOST of the pay disparity is voluntary? If not then what you've said makes little..
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#38
So you're saying everyone who authors comprehensive studies on gender pay shouldn't bother?
Major Nikon
Jun 2012
#39
which there seem to be a lot of in this thread. you'd think it was 1950, some of the rhetoric is
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#93
if that was your experience, why didn't you file a lawsuit? illegal since 1963.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#89
+++ THIS IS RIGHT WING BULLSHIT!!! WOMEN WITH SAME AMOUNT OF TIME ON JOB STILL PAID LESS +++
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#37
Thx, gotta make sure to holler louder for the truth than conservative do for lies
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#50
Then you're making their point and your link is STILLY LYING, there's gap... no matter what...
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#51
Also, the study was work hours to work hours...you can NOT discard that as a control!!
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#52
There may be a gap. It might be as much as one-fifth of that claimed by the op. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#59
it was not work hours to work hours. it was "full-time" to "full-time". full-time can be anything
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#95
Old propaganda that doesn't fly. Women in the same jobs, with the same experience, still earn less.
DirkGently
Jun 2012
#90
:sigh: I'll never forget the horselaugh my Grandmother let out when she heard the news.
TygrBright
Jun 2012
#25
it punishes men's work too. non-union framers here start at around $8-$10. and union jobs are
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#114
I've read that women in general are less aggressive in pushing for raises
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#45
This is false, hours to hours women still get paid less. Also, women HAVING to "push" for the same..
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#56
so what? seriously, men are called names too when they are pushy, but it doesn't seem to stop them.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#117
I'm a woman & I've worked for 40 years. You post smiley-faces and LOLs and "poor baby" at me.
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#151
"People think stuff like this is going to win Obama the women's vote. I doubt it."
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#53
another bs post, hours to hours women get paid LESS PERIOD end of story. You can fudge how MUCH
uponit7771
Jun 2012
#55
the number simply compares all male full-time workers to all female full-time workers, with no
HiPointDem
Jun 2012
#87
I'm not complimenting the use of a 320 year old poem in defense of the factual basis of the OP. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#126
I said I wouldn't speculate, but I think the second may have a bit to do with it.
Xithras
Jun 2012
#75
"Acting aggressive" in this context is less offputting to the boss than to peers
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#80
I must have slept through the "Negotiating Salaries for Men" class
4th law of robotics
Jun 2012
#121