Another Day of Pandering

Today is EQUAL PAY DAY! Yay! If Women’s History Month wasn’t patronizing and pander filled enough, this day tops the charts. The manipulating gymnastics one does to be able to believe women are oppressed and paid less than men (just the white ones though) are incredible feats to behold. Take a look at the ACLU’s performance on the “parallel bars”.



Today is #EqualPayDay, marking the day when women’s earnings catch up to men’s earnings for the prior year.



The reality of the wage gap isn’t the same for all women. We've broken it down: pic.twitter.com/arnFvHutql — ACLU (@ACLU) April 2, 2019 Archive.is

Here is just one problem anyone with a functioning brain should have with this tweet. Different jobs pay different amounts. To take all the jobs men do and wrap them into one bundle, then add up the money is what is known as a false equivalent. First of all, not all jobs men do are equal. Their pay, consequently, is also not equal.



Similarly, women do different jobs with different pay scales. They get paid for the job they do. If a man and a woman both held a job at McDonald’s, both would be paid the minimum wage assigned to such a job. That is the true equivalence the Left is trying to keep from you. To say women aren’t being paid as much as men in general is a logical fallacy. To make this argument, one must ignore the fact that men and women don’t always do the same jobs, therefore aren’t paid the same wage.



Women in a Man’s World

Take a truck driver for example. Roadmaster, though pandering just a bit to the “wage gap culture,” affirms the fact that male and female truck drivers make the exact same wage. The reason for that is simple. Their pay is based on their miles and hours worked. Conversely, the internet giant Google has been found to pay men less money than they do women. The pay gap is evident even though men were doing the same job as women.



To be fair to them, Google followed up on their internal audit by paying their male “Googlers” the difference in back pay. In addition, the discrepancy in their algorithm for pay shows no signs of being deliberate on Google’s part. Google claims to do an audit every year in order to eliminate discrepancies in pay which they deem based on gender and race, among other things which should not enter the equation.



Merit Based Pay

To say that, for instance, the construction industry is unfair to women, is not fair to the construction industry. A lot of jobs in the construction industry are very physically intense. Very few women can do them. And those that can are paid the wage due their merit. Which is the pay scale the industry has used for years, regardless of gender or race. You get paid based on your productivity. On the union side of things, merit has no place. Two people in the same field working in the same city get the same wage.



The union doesn’t consider gender or race any more than the non union side. So the pay gap in the construction industry cannot be said to be biased toward men. Even though some believe it should be. Naturally, women have different strengths than men do, so construction was always viewed as a man’s job. They have the muscles for it, whereas women, typically, do not.



Ability is the Deciding Factor

That isn’t to say some women can’t do the more physical jobs men can do. There are just far less women who can than men. Thus we have an industry which appears to be biased toward women when, in actuality, women are not as apt to work these types of jobs than men are. Jobs such as “Googlers”, or politicians staffers, in contrast, should be paid equal amounts, because their jobs are identical.



From The Daily Signal: “The publicly available data, pulled from LegiStorm, is only available for members who were in Congress last year. Additionally, there are some anomalies (part-time staff, shared staff, partial employment during period, etc.), which were excluded from the data set. The data identifies a few trends that are inconsistent with the messaging surrounding the bill and would actually result in downward pressure for some female salaries.”



“Of the co-sponsors’ offices, female staff assistants make an average of $1,218 more than their male counterparts, female legislative correspondents $3,416 more, legislative assistants $4,755 more, and chiefs of staff $2,268 more.”



Recycling Affirmative Action

It would be unfair of anyone to state gender discrimination is the cause for this particular pay gap, even though it is probably. There are other factors, as stated above, which could affect the pay gap. The push for equal pay smacks of affirmative action, a policy because of which allowed the hiring of people who were not as qualified as others based simply on their race. In sum, it is yet another attempt at a war on men.



These fine virtue signals…Uh… fair treatment policies… end up hurting the industries they are applied in due to the fact that nothing else is taken into consideration. The reason for that is the incentives for hiring minorities or women over men who are more qualified for the position. In reality, fairness is hiring the best person for the job, regardless of age, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any other non contributing factor.



From USLegal: “…it allows the state and federal governments to favor women-owned and minority-owned businesses when awarding contracts, and to reject bids from businesses that do not make good faith efforts to include minority-owned businesses among their subcontractors.” This looks very nice on paper. The problem is how it affects industries and businesses demographically. If a business is in a predominantly black community, for instance, it will naturally be found to employ more black people than it will white people.



Affirmative Action Encourages Discrimination

It isn’t rocket science. There are more black people available in a black community than there are white people. Logic states affirmative action would favor these businesses due to their prolific hiring of minorities. Conversely, a white dominant community would naturally hire more white people than they do blacks, for the very same reason black people are in a black community. There are more white people available than black people.



This does not eliminate discrimination. It changes discrimination’s trajectory. And it is the same way with equal pay. When preaching equal pay, it’s proponents do not consider types of jobs, demographics for those jobs, whether or not someone is qualified for that job, or someone’s productivity and proficiency at said job. The only thing considered is gender, which is highly unfair.



This is the Left’s playbook, though. False equivalents and conflation of facts to fit narratives are the norm for them. This is virtue signaling and identity politics at it’s finest. To convince women they are oppressed, and consequently that it is right to oppress men (just the white ones) is atrocious. Don’t fall for it, ladies. We are better than this.