Graph of the Day for September 21, 2009

The American Thinker ^ | Sept. 21, 2009 | Randall Hoven

[givemELL]

"In the early '70s, breaking out of the domestic cocoon, leaving their mothers' circumscribed lives behind, young women felt exhilarated and bold. But the more women have achieved, the more they seem aggrieved." Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, Sept. 19, 2009.

"Many women are being charged more in health care coverage, but as we all know, women are earning less. We all know that women earn 78 cents on the dollar to every men -- to a man [sic]." Michelle Obama, First Lady

Percentage US workforce which is men: 53%. (Employed men, age 16 and over, in August 2009: 73,519,000. Employed women, age 16 and over, in August 2009: 66,131,000. Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

Percentage of fatal occupational injuries in 2007 which were men: 92%. (Source: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics.)

[givemELL]

Useful graph showing degreed women doing better than men from HS to AA to BS.

Also, healthcare mentioned. Women MDs are mostly part-time, less than 8 hours a day, and their practice lives are only 8 to 10 years on average...not a good investment by govt., who pay for all the specialty training in the US and control completely the numbers as well. Govt. cut US doctor specialist training slots by 25% in 2000 or 2001 after a trial program in NYState the previous year. We have gotten much less in healthcare delivery since 2000 simply from a suspected growth in the numbers of women in medicine...anybody know the percentage of women in med schools?

[TSgt]

[DB]

Pay “change” is a little misleading.

There’s a big difference in meaning between the amount of change and the amount of pay. So without some reference point of absolute values at a particular time just showing change over time doesn’t translate directly to actual pay.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Maureen Dowd is far smarter than anyone here, including me. In spite of this, I'll try to enlighten MoDo. On the average, women work fewer hours in the economy and also choose less risky and dangerous, thus lower paid jobs. If MoDo, continues to believe this nonsense, which was debunked 20+ years ago by Thomas Sowell, she's a lying, vicious, propagandist.

Point 2, women are charged more for health insurance, because they use more health insurance. Why shouldn't they pay more.

[Prince of Space]

If women truly make only 78 cents to every dollar paid to a man, why isn't the workforce made up overwhelmingly of women?

If I owned a company, I'd hire mainly women, which would boost my profits enormously.

That's the trouble with liberals....they don't think things through.

Mrs. Prince of Space

[Randy Larsen]

Excellent observation Mrs. Prince of Space!!!

[Jabba the Nutt]

For liberals, it's not about an external reality, it's not about finding the truth or understanding nature, human nature and otherwise. It's about the internal feeling of feeling superior to other people.

Thus, you spout off about women making only 78 cents for every dollar than men make. Therefore, I care more than you. I care about the plight of women getting underpaid. I'm morally superior to you mean-spirited and possibly evil person, because I CARE MORE than you do.

It is a waste of time using facts with liberals. You have to make them confront their own bias. Make them get outside of themselves and into reality. Unless you can do that, you're wasting your time.

Hell, one time I got a super, touchy-feely, progressive liberal to advocate putting the National Guard in the ghettos of America on every street corner with machine guns, because of the war on drugs. Everyone else immediately agreed, that they guy was nuts.