Myth Understanding

CommieTommie Harkin spoke, yesterday, at a Equal Pay Day Rally.

"It’s great to be here, this afternoon. It’s great to be with fed up, fired up, charged up Americans who have come here with a simple demand: justice and fair pay for working women. So tell me: This is the 21st century, for heaven’s sake. Is it time for women to get equal pay with men? Say yes!

We are demanding equal rights for women in other countries. Is it time for us to practice what we preach, and to demand equal rights for women here in the United States?! We have been patient for too long. It’s time to be impatient. It’s time to stomp and shout. It’s time to demand that Congress act, now."

That is why I have reintroduced the Fair Pay Act in the 110th Congress. My bill requires each individual employer to provide equal pay for jobs that are comparable in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions..."

How is that different than current law, the Equal Pay Act of 1963?

Read for yourself comrade...

The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women be given equal pay for equal work in the same establishment. The jobs need not be identical, but they must be substantially equal. It is job content, not job titles, that determines whether jobs are substantially equal.

Specifically, the EPA provides:

Employers may not pay unequal wages to men and women who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort and responsibility, and that are performed under similar working conditions within the same establishment.


Let me see if I get this straight.

Since the inception of the Equal Pay Act, Congress has been dominated by Dummycrats for well over 30 years and CommieTommie's solution to act now is to reintroduce the current legislation?

Talk about a waste of everyone's money.

CommieTommie continues...

"Today, millions of female-dominated jobs – social workers, teachers, child-care workers, nurses, and so many more – are equivalent to male-dominate jobs. But they pay dramatically less.

We had a hearing on this issue two weeks ago in my committee. One of the witnesses, Dr. Philip Cohen of the University of North Carolina, compared nurses’ aides, who are overwhelmingly women, and truck drivers, who are overwhelmingly men. In both groups, the average age is 43. Both require “medium” amounts of strength. Nurses’ aides, on average have more education and training. But nurses’ aides make less than 60 percent of what truck drivers make."

Comparing nurses aides and truck drivers?

Only a moron would do that and the scientific community is united in that fact

You can't compare the median wages of all men and women.

Per "Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic Progress of Women in America"

Men pursue jobs that are more dangerous, like truck driving, and receive higher pay for that.

92% of all job related deaths involve men.

Women who never had children made 98 cents for every $1 men made.

Also, check out "The Wage Gap Myth" & "'Gender Pay Gap' is pap".