That's what white men should demand...for themselves. You read it right. Interestingly, the myth that women get paid $.76 for every $1 that a man makes doing the same job is simply not true. I have known this for a while, but you would never know it by the way people talk about this issue. This was brought to my attention in this article where a CNN reporter made the claim again that women and minorities get paid less "for the exact same job."
However, as the links in the above article reveal, the organization Pay-Equity.org is clear that it is not about equal pay for equal work. Their Q & A page explains,
However, which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Do the jobs pay less because women are doing them, or are women simply doing jobs that pay less? And to declare that woman and Blacks are "segregated" into these jobs is stunning, to me. When I worked in the social welfare field (a field I chose not for the money, but for the value I placed on impacting my community, which I saw as a part of my "compensation", by the way), men and women got paid equally (I hired both and offered both the same wage, so I know for sure). There are men who choose to go into "service" jobs, whether custodian, house keeper, dishwasher, whatever. Just as there are women who choose, and are allowed (as opposed to being segregated from pursuing) jobs that pay more.
Maybe the activists should start the revolution over the inequalities between professional athletes' pay versus, say teachers'. O, that might be too "sensitive" considering entertainment is valued by our culture more than an education. Wait a minute... this could get tricky. Let's just stick to the gender warfare. That's easier, even if it's not based in the facts.
This is especially true when you consider this U.S. News article from 03.21.05 by John Leo, which discusses a book by Warren Farrell, Why Men Earn More. Farrell was formerly a board member of the National Organization for Women in the early '70s. His book reveals:
However, as the links in the above article reveal, the organization Pay-Equity.org is clear that it is not about equal pay for equal work. Their Q & A page explains,
"The wage gap exists, in part, because many women and people of color are still segregated into a few low-paying occupations. More than half of all women workers hold sales, clerical and service jobs. Studies show that the more an occupation is dominated by women or people of color, the less it pays."
However, which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Do the jobs pay less because women are doing them, or are women simply doing jobs that pay less? And to declare that woman and Blacks are "segregated" into these jobs is stunning, to me. When I worked in the social welfare field (a field I chose not for the money, but for the value I placed on impacting my community, which I saw as a part of my "compensation", by the way), men and women got paid equally (I hired both and offered both the same wage, so I know for sure). There are men who choose to go into "service" jobs, whether custodian, house keeper, dishwasher, whatever. Just as there are women who choose, and are allowed (as opposed to being segregated from pursuing) jobs that pay more.
Maybe the activists should start the revolution over the inequalities between professional athletes' pay versus, say teachers'. O, that might be too "sensitive" considering entertainment is valued by our culture more than an education. Wait a minute... this could get tricky. Let's just stick to the gender warfare. That's easier, even if it's not based in the facts.
This is especially true when you consider this U.S. News article from 03.21.05 by John Leo, which discusses a book by Warren Farrell, Why Men Earn More. Farrell was formerly a board member of the National Organization for Women in the early '70s. His book reveals:
"Women are 15 times as likely as men to become top executives in major corporations before the age of 40. Never-married, college-educated males who work full time make only 85 percent of what comparable women earn. Female pay exceeds male pay in more than 80 different fields, 39 of them large fields that offer good jobs, like financial analyst, engineering manager, sales engineer, statistician, surveying and mapping technicians, agricultural and food scientists, and aerospace engineer. A female investment banker's starting salary is 116 percent of a male's. Part-time female workers make $1.10 for every $1 earned by part-time males.... Surprisingly, Farrell argues that comparable males and females have been earning similar salaries for decades, though the press has yet to notice. As long ago as the early 1980s, he writes, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that companies paid men and women equal money when their titles and responsibilities were the same. In 1969, data from the American Council on Education showed that female professors who had never been married and had never published earned 145 percent of their male counterparts' pay. Even during the 1950s, Farrell says, the gender pay gap for all never-married workers was less than 2 percent while never-married white women between 45 and 54 earned 106 percent of what their white male counterparts made."So, it's time White men started demanding equal pay for equal work. Maybe once we start picketing, the media will start to pay attention to our plight.