The Wage Gap Myth

American Thinker ^ | 9/18/10 | Anthony Kang

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Sometimes you just have to feel sorry for President Obama. Having recently appointed Austan Goolsbee to his economic team, feminists are outraged that Obama chose a man to replace Christina Romer. "Many women have become the sole breadwinners, but because of the wage gap, as the sole breadwinner they can't provide for their families as men can," Terry O'Neill, head of the National Organization for Women, said. "If you had half of the economic advisers being women, I think that perspective would come to the forefront."

In one sense, O'Neill is right about a wage gap -- on average, women earn about 80 cents to a man's dollar. Could this mean feminists and Democrats actually have a point on this one? Not a chance.

[conservative cat]

Didn’t they find that women on Obama’s staff made less than men (esp. when they compared them to women on McCain’s staff?) Just food for thought.

[loveliberty2]

Thanks to the Obama team policies, neither men, women, nor youth can have jobs and success today. Here's just one example of what so-called "progressive" policies have brought us over the past few decades: