Posted on 27 September 2008. Filed under: feminism, politics | Tags: Barack Obama, equal pay, gender wage gap, hypocrisy, John McCain, McCain, Obama, wage gap |
McCain’s ads about the supposed wage gap in the Obama campaign are all over the place now.
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that this is true, instead of the gross misrepresentation it actually is.
Why then does McCain oppose doing anything about it? If he’s so concerned about wage gaps and equal pay, why not, [...]
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Posted on 24 September 2008. Filed under: feminism, politics | Tags: discrimination, economics, gender wage gap, Obama, sexism, wage gap |
Vote Republican if you want equal pay, suggests the Wall Street Journal. Why? The wage gap is smaller when Republicans are president. Not counting too far back, of course.
Here are the problems with this line of thought:
Saying the wage gap is smaller is like saying, Well, he didn’t hit you very hard.
The whole idea that [...]
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Posted on 19 September 2008. Filed under: feminism, politics | Tags: discrimination, equal pay, gender wage gap, Lilly Ledbetter, Obama, politics, sexism, wage gap, Wal-mart, workplace |
Now that Obama has put out an ad on the gender wage gap, the usual roster of impregnably self-satisfied misogynists has been crawling out of the woodwork to bat for the ludicrous idea that the wage gap is like, totally OK, because men deserve higher pay. Evidently the truth just has to be repeated ad [...]
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