Equal Pay for Equal Work

For John, BLUF:  Isn't there an Equal Pay Act already out there?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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The Washington Examiner has a comment on the State of the Union Speech concerning the wage disparity between men and women.  It notes that "President Obama gives up 77 cent wage gap statistic".♠  Here is the lede and following:

In his State of the Union address, President Obama tried to continue the myth that women are paid drastically less than men, but there’s a catch — he didn’t repeat the debunked claim that women earn 77 cents to the dollar that men earn. . . .

But Obama’s speech is missing any mention of just how differently men and women are paid.  Perhaps this is because the Bureau of Labor Statistics pointed out that it’s not Congress but women’s own choices that result in the supposed wage gap.

And maybe it’s because the White House knows this to be true, as Betsey Stevenson, member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, admitted last April.

Even with the false statistic removed, Obama does a disservice to women by continuing to tell them they’re all victims.

I wonder what the disparity is between men and women with regard to lost time accidents and deaths on the job?

Hat tip to the Instapundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  To me that reads funny, but I know what they mean.  It is 77 cents for a woman for every dollar for a man.  I guess, in my mind it is 77%.