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Here you go. I'm making the exact same hourly wage as a man in my position. That being said, my total yearly earnings are less because I work less. I worked a lot less when my son was small.
Are you private sector or public sector ?
If private sector your wages are publicly posted like public sector ?
Your raises are all the same amount like public sector ?
The simplistic accounting that led to "women make 77% of what men make" shouldn't be used by anyone that takes themselves seriously. Even Obama wouldn't use that kind of accounting to justify salaries in his office.
Lots of studies have been done on this, and a meta-analysis by the BLS come to the conclusion that:
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This study leads to the unambiguous conclusion that the differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and that the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.
Are you private sector or public sector ?
If private sector your wages are publicly posted like public sector ?
Your raises are all the same amount like public sector ?
Human Resources has become a field that is dominated by women. HR knows who is getting paid what. So are you telling me that all these women who run HR departments are part of the diabolical plan to pay women less?
This bill, on so many levels that I cannot go into now, is just a big bunch of BS that allows the Democrats to say that the Republicans are waging a "War on Women." Not the Republicans are always so wonderful, but the Democrats really have no scruples.
And if this bill ever passed, we would have to open dozens of new law schools to mint the thousands and thousands of new lawyers who would be handling the tens of thousands of mostly bogus discrimination cases filed every year. "That guy is making more than me. Must because I'm a woman. I'm suing!"
There is verifiable proof that women get paid less than men. That isn't up for debate. We KNOW that this happens.
How ridiculous. If employers could hire women for 77 cents on the dollar that men get paid, the unemployment rate for women be next to zero, and the unemployment rate would be double digits for men, correct? Why hire men if you can get women cheap? But unemployment rates for men and women are similar.
Women make 77 cents on the dollar for the following reasons:
- They make up a small percentage of STEM majors. STEM grads make the most money.
- There are high paying jobs that they cannot or will not do (utility line worker, iron worker, electrician, plumber, UPS driver, machinist, welder, fork lift operator etc.). In medicine, surgeons, who make the most money, are overwhelmingly men.
- They take more time off for work for child rearing.
So please stop the nonsense. Employers want the best employees, irrespective of their race or gender. An employer would hire a good female electrician (or the other jobs listed above) if they were available. But they're not. And it's not the employer's fault.
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what 'evil' corporation wouldn't 'save' money this way!?! 
