Is Rachel Maddow sincere?

[HiPointDem]

65. There may indeed be some form of discrimination going on beneath that 18%, but it's nothing

so simplistic as the kind of thing Maddow is harping on, nor can it be fixed by the kind of measures Maddow is supporting.

Which is why I consider her dishonest. Her report actually *misleads* and *misinforms* the audience, leading those who support equality to go away with the impression that overt discrimination by employers is the root problem and that the adjustments made less of a difference than they actually did.

I'm a woman who worked from the beginning of the civil rights era, I know how it was and how it is. But I'm a working class woman, and I know that the injury to me & mine from gender inequality is dwarfed by the injury from class inequality.

I don't understand your point about sommersby. If full-time women workers in job category A make 23% less than men but e.g. work 9% fewer hours and have 9% less experience, why is the 77% figure important?

The 77% figure doesn't reflect the principle of "equal pay for equal work assuming equal hours/equal qualifications/equal experience" as well as the 5% figure (assuming the adjustments are done fairly).

At any rate, an honest discussion of both is warranted. Not the biased presentation Maddow made.