Men, Women And The Wage Gap
August 19th, 2015
I logged onto a website belonging to National Women’s Legal Center (NWLC) and was stunned by how unfairly women are treated in the workplace. The site was difficult to navigate but what the hell “Overall women only receive 77 or 78 cents for every dollar that their white non-Hispanic counterpart receives”. How could the courts uphold such blatant oppression? I read through the over 100 pages not including the fact sheets and the 77 or 78 cent figure headed most of them. Then I turned to Google to see if I could find someone who made less of the gap. There was a very articulate but cocky and disagreeable writer named Matthew Cochran who insisted “There Is No Wage Gap: Feminists Want Equal Pay For Unequal Work“. So I read on. Then one piece of information struck me. “For women who are never married, that 77 cents on the dollar rises to 96 cents”. It was similar to something I read on the NWLC’s site somewhere around page 69. (Begin Excerpt) “Numerous studies show that even when all relevant career and family attributes are taken into account, there is still a significant, unexplained gap in men’s and women’s earnings. Thus, even when women make the same career choices as men and work the same hours, they earn less. For example, a study of college graduates one year after graduation determined that women earned only 95 percent of what men earned, even after accounting for variables such as “job and workplace, employment experience and continuity, education and training, and demographic and personal characteristics”. (End Excerpt) Matthew’s assertion that never getting married is equal is ridiculous and the NWLC’s definition for equal work not including hours worked is ridiculous as well.
A 5 cent gap on the dollar isn’t fair. Still it’s not a 23 cent gap. Any gap in equal pay should be addressed.
Both would be making better evaluations if they understood Occupational Parenting. My question to Matthew is why is raising children less valuable work than investment brokering? Some would say that’s just capitalism. Occupational Parenting depends on capitalism to get the best information possible here in our information age. Investments are not as important as raising our young nor is it as important as many other social services jobs. We are a people who’s priorities are really out of harmony with existence itself. Both men and women should be putting more value on the home no matter which one is doing the work. Everything else would just fall into place. Until next time, keep your homes well.
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