Is it an embarrassment that women are paid so much less than men? That’s what the president says. Over and over.
“Today, the average full-time working woman earns just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns,” President Obama reported in a speech back in April. “In 2014, that’s an embarrassment. It is wrong.”
But what’s wrong is the claim itself — or at least what Obama and his fellow Democrats regularly imply that the numbers mean. What we are supposed to be embarrassed about is the way the market discriminates against half the population. Isn’t it unfair that women make so much less than men do, and for the same work?
Behind the differences in pay are a number of straightforward reasons that we should understand before attributing the problem to sexist employers.
While the 77-cent figure is technically true, the statistic does not account for occupations held, hours…
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