A Long Way from the End of Men

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It also might be deadly.




There are many professions that are dominated by women: social workers, yoga instructors, teachers, travel agents and massage therapists.

Unfortunately, this generation was successfully divided by class, pitted against each other. Divide and conquer.

As has been noted over, over, and over again, and still often ignored by these one-sided feminist rants, the 77 cents on the dollar for the same job statistic is analytically false because it doesn't take into account hourly pay jobs. That is, the stat is rigged. Already knowing that women work fewer hours on hourly jobs (and yes this is usually a choice) the researchers compare only gross income (not hourly wage). So if woman gets paid $15 per hour and works 20 hours, and a man gets paid $12 per hour and works 30, the metric used suggests that the woman gets paid less. Is that a good metric? Of course not!

So can we get a correction? Adjusting for hours worked, women make 98 cents per dollar of men. This is still a disparity, but hardly one that warrants the huffing and puffing that the 77 cents falsehood engenders.

And none of this takes into account other factors, like perhaps the women work less hours but are costing more in benefits (in health care, they do). None of it takes into account social welfare, of which women are HUGE recipients. It doesn't take into account child support payments (30-50% of income). Maybe women work less because they have other sources of income (men, there I said it).

So enough about conservatives rigging stats and being "anti-science" (unquestionably, they have their problems as well). How about liberals lead with honesty instead of propaganda? Well, a man can dream.

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