Why Does Hillary Think Women Are Worth Less?

Part of Hillary Clinton's pitch to voters is that she cares very deeply about women, and that she's the candidate who will finally close the gender pay gap. You might think that a two term senator with a multi million dollar non-profit who cares so deeply about these issues has a record of doing her part to close that gap. You'd be wrong. As Townhall notes:

The "of course" piece of that headline is, needless to say, a reference to the many other "pay gap" violations of which Hillary Clinton has been guilty over the years. Under the Democrats' clumsy calculations, she has under-paid women in her Senate office and at her State Department. The Daily Caller documents the latest transgression. Why must the Clinton Foundation wage this brutal, mean-spirited war on women? Are they unsatisfied with their separate war on transparency and good government? Questions abound. Details:

Male executives at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation earn 38 percent more than women executives, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the foundation’s latest IRS tax filings. The foundation’s 2013 IRS form 990 reveals that nearly three times as many men as women occupy the executive suites at the Little Rock, Arkansas-based foundation. On average, top male executives at the foundation earn $109,000 more than the top female executives with positions in the C-suite.

First things first: the gender pay gap is a myth. It's true that men do make more money on average in the workplace, but there are a variety of factors that come into play. Men are likely to choose risker positions, or positions that include high level commissions; men are less likely to settle for a 9 to 5, and men don't take time off to have children. Writing at Opportunity Lives, Ellen Carmichael explains:

On Tuesday, April 12, social justice activists commemorated what they’ve deemed “Equal Pay Day,” or the point in time through which women must work to catch up to their male peers’ earnings from the previous calendar year. But, as Rachel Greszler of the Heritage Foundation points out, it seems that so-called women’s advocacy groups have miscalculated this alleged date:

“Even based on a very broad measure of pay — one that ignores the types of jobs men and women perform, their education and their experience, their work schedules, the benefits they receive and just about everything else that employers consider when deciding pay — women make 83 cents on the dollar compared to men.

According to this more recent statistic, Equal Pay Day would have occurred on March 17.”

Oops.

But those are just silly numbers, right? Since social justice activists appear uninterested in getting their facts correct, it’s unsurprising they would overlook the factors that have caused this perceived disparity to take place.

First, it’s important to remember that wage discrimination was made illegal with both the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any employer found to be violating these laws should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Discrimination of any kind is fundamentally unfair to all people.

When all factors are considered, economist June O’Neill discovered that the actual wage gap is about 3.3 percent. Further, she found that when comparing “single childless women to single childless men, ages 34-43, the wage not only disappears, but instead becomes a wage premium” (meaning, women earned more than their male peers).

I'm sure none of that matters to Clinton, whose gender politics of yesteryear are just about the only thing she has going for her dead on arrival candidacy. Still, it's important to note that when Hillary has the opportunity to practice what she preaches and help the people she claims to care about, she doesn't. Because Hillary cares only about herself.


Source: AAN