Radical feminist debunks Obama's '77 cents' myth

Well, it's not just Obama's, but that old lib myth keeps rising from the grave, and Obama's speechwriters dug it up once more for last week's SOTU address. Fortunately, even fellow leftists have had it with this myth...

AmericanSpectator: If you also suffered through the State of the Union address, you heard him praise Obamacare, claim he would slash bureaucracy, and of course, fight for income equality.

Obama pandered to the ladies, his tone becoming more passionate with every overly emotional word:

"Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work."

You have probably heard that statistic—77 cents on the dollar. Speech after speech from the left side of town loves to rest their entire “we’re with women” campaign on that foundation—but its sinking sand.

To debunk this myth, we turn to—not a conservative female journalist, a Heritage white paper, or Rand Paul—but none other than Hanna Rosin, the uber-feminist author of The End of Men.

The Spectator reports that five months ago, Rosin practically buried the myth, only to be resurrected once more by this president...

The official Bureau of Labor Department statistics show that the median earnings of full-time female workers is 77 percent of the median earnings of full-time male workers. But that is very different than “77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men.”

Women congregate in different professions than men do, and the largely male professions tend to be higher-paying. If you account for those differences, and then compare a woman and a man doing the same job, the pay gap narrows to 91 percent.”

A report in December says Millennial women have actually narrowed that to 93 cents on the dollar.

So...not only is Rosin proving that the $7.25/women vs. $8.02/men split is bunk, but this feminist is openly admitting that men tend to enter fields which generally pay more. And here's the kicker (remember, coming from the mouth of a radical feminist):

Rosin adds that the reason women are making less could largely depend on more complicated issues, such as maternity leave, marriage, and a lack of childcare options. Debates on those topics can be saved for another day.

What deserves immediate attention is how she cites one of the most important reasons that women make less than men—perhaps, “Women just don’t want to work the same way men do.”

Wow. So that '77 cents' stat...yeah, utter hogwash. Just another tool in the statist's satchel to divide us.

Related links: No, Women Don’t Make Less Money Than Men
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