First voter ID, now the gender pay gap…another narrative shattered. Under fire for allegedly underpaying women, Google discovered that it was overpaying them.
From the New York Times about the SJW vs. SJW controversy:
“When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority
groups, it found, to the surprise of just about everyone, that men were paid less money than women for doing similar work. The study, which disproportionately led to pay raises for thousands of men, is done every year, but the latest findings arrived as Google and other companies in Silicon Valley face increasing pressure to deal with gender issues in the workplace, from sexual harassment to wage discrimination. Gender inequality is a radioactive topic at Google….”
Google aside, the victimhood claim that women make less than men throughout industry as a whole was always based on an apples-to-oranges comparison which failed to take into account the type of job or tenure in a job among other factors.
Christina Hoff Summers of AEI explained what’s behind the persistent propaganda in The Hill:
“The 23-cent gender pay gap we often hear about is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women who work full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure, or hours worked per week. When economists account for these relevant factors, the wage gap narrows to a few cents….What explains the appeal and staying power of a groundless claim about systemic pay injustice? For one thing, there is a lot of statistical illiteracy among journalists, activists, political leaders….The wage gap myth endures because it has the support of a passionate and effective lobby. An army of gender scholars and activists in our universities and women’s research institutes believes there is systemic gender discrimination in the labor market and they promote this myth in their classrooms, textbooks, and factsheets…”
As Fox Sports/FS1 hostClay Travis similarly recently wrote on his Outkick the Coverage blog:
“This is actually the primary reason for the wage gap in this country, because women take off many years of prime income years to take care of children than men do. (Women who never have children and men have nearly identical incomes, which is why much of the wage gap discussion is a political charade. The wade gap is mostly about choices when it comes to child care, not sexism from bosses. If women made 20% less than men for the exact same job, why would any capitalistic company ever hire men?)”
Anyone who is at all in touch with the real world, is probably not surprised at the Google findings.
Admittedly, devious or arbitrary employers can sometimes take advantage of both men and women when it comes to hiring, pay, or promotions. Even, some employees who have legitimate beefs in this regard often can’t obtain legal redress either.
Women are also far outperforming men in America’s graduate schools and are on the fast track to prestigious positions. If the way American men are typically protrayed in TV commercials, this also should come as no surprise.
An Obama-appointed federal judge ruled this week that the Trump administration must enforce an Obama-era EEOC rule “required companies to report pay data by race and gender, a move advocates say will help shrink the wage gap,” the Washington Post reported. Assuming this ruling holds up on appeal, if there is one, the findings could also surprise its advocates Google-stye or result in more affirmative action by risk-advese employers to make the statistics look good.
