A Woman’s Lifetime Earnings Lost To Pay Gap Could Feed A Family Of Four For 37 Years

[lumberjack_jeff]

51. One at a time.

Last edited Wed Apr 18, 2012, 10:50 AM - Edit history (1)

The first link...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/fact-check-obama-and-equal-pay-for-women/
In 2010, the most recent data available, women on average earned 77.4 cents for every dollar earned by men holding the same full-time, year-round job, according to Census data analyzed by the National Committee on Pay Equity.

... is a lie.

77% does not measure "the same full-time, year-round job". It measures women's wages in total, against men's wages in total, without correcting for careers, time in service, overtime hours. Nor does it correct for people unemployed or disabled. In this study methodology, a population of three unemployed guys, four disabled guys, two men in prison, one $40,000 ironworker with 20 years on the job who works 40 hours a month of overtime and one $30,000 florist is used to "prove" a pay gap of 25%.

The second link...

http://www.now.org/issues/economic/factsheet.html <----much more information at link
+Women's median pay was less than men's in each and every one of the 20 industries and 25 occupation groups surveyed by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007.3 Even men working in female-dominated occupations tend to earn more than women working in those same occupations.4
+A study by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) examined how the wage gap affects college graduates. Wage disparities kick in shortly after college graduation, when women and men should, absent discrimination, be on a level playing field. One year after graduating college, women are paid on average only 80 percent of their male counterparts' wages, and during the next 10 years, women's wages fall even further behind, dropping to only 69 percent of men's earnings ten years after college. According to the AAUW report, even after "ontrolling for hours, occupation, parenthood, and other factors normally associated with pay, college-educated women still earn less than their male peers earn. . . . A large portion of the
gender pay gap is not explained by women's choices or characteristics."

... would have been great if it had included AAUW's actual finding. Five percent is the actual pay gap after taking out the causative factors that the American Association of University Women deemed attributable to women's choices in 2007. Notice that they haven't repeated this study? See page 18, if you don't believe me.

http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/behindPayGap.pdf

(by the way, there are a number of jobs in which women earn more than men.

The third link is similarly misleading, men still represent the lion's share of the unemployed.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm