Posted on 04/28/2008 5:12:25 AM PDT by Invisigoth
The Democratic Congress, which has accomplished basically none of its stated agenda, has decided to try running American businesses instead. After all, they couldn’t do any worse.
Don’t overestimate them.
Last week the honorables gathered – only after giving Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama extra time to get there from the campaign trail – to vote on a measure that would have made it easier for women to sue for employment discrimination. The issues largely concern the notion of “equal pay for equal work,” and the bill would extend and redefine the statute of limitations so women could wait until longer after an alleged incident of discrimination to sue.
The bill, which faces a sure veto by President Bush, is fundamentally flawed because its premise is wrong. Women do make less than men, on average, for “equal work.” That’s true. Or it would be true, if there was such a thing as “equal work.” There is not.
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The problem with this issue is that it has been proven false based on the following.
Research shows that people with the same college degree in the same job type make about the same pay.
The flawed research used a much lower standard such as women with a BS vs men with a BS.
If the women’s BS was in mid-evil art in France , and the mans was in Business guess who makes more money?
If you want more pay, seek a profession that compensates you based on tangible results and productivity. Contribution to the bottom line and feeding new and unique products into a company's product line is completely gender blind.
The way the bill was worded it wanted equal pay for “Similar” work, and equal pay for work of “equal value”.
It wasn't even about getting the same pay for the same job.
With the way it was worded it was just a full employment for lawyers bill.
Aren't we, in fact, expected to?
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