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DesideriScuri -> RE: White House Says Wage Gender Gap Stats Are Misleading...When Applied to the White House (4/9/2014 7:14:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
What a pile of horseshit. The actual real wage gap is about women getting paid less than men in the same jobs.
How much did you read, Ken?
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Carney protested that this was misleading, because women and men holding similar positions at the White House are paid equivalent salaries. Because women outnumber men at the lowest levels of the employee chain, however, the average female salary at the White House is lower.
Carney is right: It is misleading to average the salaries of men and women in widely varying positions and then use this as evidence that women are being discriminated against. That women disproportionately make up lower-paid positions may point to some broad, systematic gender bias, past or present, but it doesn't equate to outright sexist behavior on an employer's part.
It's good that Carney acknowledges this as far as the White House is concerned, because the Obama administration and many others are quick to gloss over nuance like this when talking about the wage gap in general. We frequently hear that American women make only 77 cents for every dollar men make, but this is based on data that fails to account for women's work histories and life choices. It aggregates the earnings of women in all positions and compares this average against the earnings of all men.
In the first paragraph I quoted, the article details what Carney said (and it aligns with what you said).
In the second paragraph I quoted, the article says Carney was right (supports your claim about what the gender gap is really about).
In the third paragraph I quoted, the article mentions that similar pay for similar positions isn't always important in the general discussion on the gender pay gap.
I do understand how you may have missed those paragraphs. They were buried behind the introductory paragraph. Who could have expected someone to read the entire 8 paragraph article?
The headline and the entire article attempts to attack the White house and the tries to gloss over Carney pointing out the fallacy of the attack. There is a real wage gap in this country and whining because some media outlets use a facile statistic to report it is not the White House's fault.
Yep, "glossing over" it by stating that he was right in his criticism of the report. What you, apparently, missed in comprehension of what the author was stating wasn't that he disagreed with Carney, but that the Administration doesn't apply the same criteria to the general statistics. You know, when they spew rhetoric about the entire US, they don't apply the same nuanced critique that Carney correctly pointed out in the White House gender gap stats.
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