No, of course they can't. And they don't want to, because that would shoot their entire narrative. And with lefties, it's all about the narrative.
So, we have a national law that's been on the books for over half a century, but California decides it's going to up the ante a bit:
A bill introduced this week in California (where else?) would force businesses to submit payroll data to the state, so it can police whether or not men and women receive equal pay.Read the whole thing, and marvel that this state still functions at all with such idiots in charge.
It would be yet another absurd regulatory burden and massive bureaucracy expansion in a state already hampered by both.
State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson introduced the bill before a Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Jackson said, "Women are in the workforce primarily because they need to be and it’s important that women are paid equally."
She added, "It’s an enormous problem."
It's not. The wage gap is a myth that does not account for differences in job selections, work hours, the danger of the job, or anything else. Women tend to make less money than men because a work/life home balance is more important to women than men. Men are more likely to think it perfectly fine to work 60 hours per week than a woman, especially one with a family. Further, men tend to select higher-paying job fields than women. This alone accounts for much of the gap.
The 77cents/100cents statistic comes from summing all women's wages in the U.S. and comparing it to the sum of all men's wages in the U.S. for that year.
ReplyDeleteSo if all the money made by all women equals X billion dollars, then all the money made by all the man is roughly 24% more than X billion dollars--or 77cents/100cents.
So let's say the combined money all the women at your work made last year was 1,000,000, and the combined money all the men at your work made was 1,200,000.
1,000,000/1,200,000 equals 5/6 or women made 83cents/100cents that men made.
but see this . . .
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/04/gender-pay-gap-update.html
in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more.
I was disturbed to read that the California Assembly is considering a bill that among other things would ban the selling of any sort of books suggesting that male and female were the only genders. I can't imagine what these people are thinking. I attribute this to a statewide sort of shaken baby syndrome due to the constant trembling of the various fault lines there.
ReplyDeleteIf we adjust for education and occupation, the gap is much smaller, and it is still getting smaller. It should be 97 cents to the dollar, not 77 cents to the dollar after we make the adjustment for education and occupation.
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