Anyone who believes this pay gap nonsense will believe anything as long as it is NOT true.
The truth is that when comparing for men and women doing the same ACTUAL work, with the same experience, education and training and the same seniority on the job women average slightly higher pay than men.
Women are the majority of registered voters so they control the government but they want to call themselves a minority, the only real MAJORITY that exists is the female majority but they want to call themselves a minority. The REAL reason that we have not had a woman president YET is that women in general have not wanted one. They rejected Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primaries and now we are being told that Hillary is the frontrunner for 2016. What, they didn’t want her then but eight years later as an old and worn out cackling clown they are going to elect her?
Just another “genderhawk” -
“Equal effort” is a red herring, drawn across the path of anybody trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of how it is that men seem to wind up with larger paychecks than women.
The fact is, anybody gets just about as much money in exchange for the time and effort put in on the job as the rest of society is willing to give that person. Rock stars and sports figures get lots of money because, well, poor people give rich people money. In some dimly perceived way, the very act of elevating another to an exalted status somehow elevates even the lowest to think, “Hey, maybe I has a little something to do with that.”
Applauding with cash is a time-honored method of showing that approval and personal affection for another, and defining that trigger by which a greater or lesser amount of reward is showered upon an individual is as elusive as trying to prove any article of faith or personal belief. The impulse would seem incoherent or totally irrational to anyone else.
In many instances, the female employee is paid for being what she is, just for being pretty. Ugly or uninteresting women get paid less than smart, stylish women.
Look it up.