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President Obama: Sexist in Chief

Happy Jake Wrote: Oct 25, 2012 6:58 AM

... It works because if you take all women and all men, there appears to be a gap. A fairly wide one at that (28%). But look at it logically. Look at the people in your office. If you have a group of people doing the same job, with the same qualifications and roughly the same time on the job, do you REALLY think there's a 28% pay gap? Sure, it's possible that some may make more than others - to get a perfect comparison, you need identical jobs, experience, qualification, and performance, and that's next to impossible to find. But do you really think the women in your office make that much less than the men? ...

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President Obama: Sexist in Chief

"In what new ways," an "undecided voter" asked the presidential candidates during the second debate, "do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?"

Mitt Romney said that, as governor, he questioned why there were no female applicants for his administration. Women's groups, he said, then brought him "binders full" of qualified women. To this, Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said, "Mitt Romney, on a point-blank question the other night in the debate, refused to answer whether he believes in equal pay for equal work....

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