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In reply to the discussion: Is Rachel Maddow sincere? [View all]Spazito
(55,643 posts)referenced in your link and after doing both, I find the blogger in your OP link is even more selective in the choices made to make the point he/she wanted to make on the blog.
I, in no way, felt Rachel Maddow was being dishonest in how she addressed the subject. One can try and quibble, I suppose, as to whether it is only discrimination causing the gap but the gap, nevertheless, is real and based on averages/aggregates.The key question is based on equal pay for equal work which means a woman doing the same work does not receive equal pay for 264 of the 265 occupations studied. One example used by those who want to obfuscate the gap is positing less hours worked by the woman than the man which is a red herring, imo. Women's hourly wage or salary levels are less than that of men doing the same work.
I find the blogger contemptuous toward Ms. Maddow throughout the whole piece, far beyond what one could expect if the REAL issue with the blogger was a difference in presentation on the percentage of the gap under study.