Huffington Post Inadvertently Exposes the Pay Gap Myth - Granite Grok

Huffington Post Inadvertently Exposes the Pay Gap Myth

I love this.

The Huffington Post and raging intellect Kristen Bell inadvertently make the conservative (thus factual) case as to why looking at the “fact that women get paid 77 cents for every dollar men do” is  completely specious. (For our lefty readers, specious means on the surface something looks correct, but actually it isn’t. You’re welcome.)

I mean if there truly is a wage gap and women are in fact getting 23 cents on the dollar less than men for the same work, why wouldn’t a company employ only women? I’m a stockholder, and if I found out a company in which I’m invested is overpaying employees, there’d be hell to pay. But of course, we all know there are other variables at play when considering the pay differential such as the number of hours worked, occupations, etc. Watch:

Ramesh Ponnuru put’s it perfectly:

[Kristen Bell] has come pretty close to illustrating a standard conservative argument against looking at the pay gap this way. Namely, why don’t employers pinksource? If companies can save that much money by firing men and paying women less to do the same work, why don’t they do it? Why don’t female employers do it? Why don’t investors demand it?

The answer is that the 23-cent pay gap doesn’t result from paying women less for the same work, and so the savings aren’t there to make.

Once again the leftards expose their lefttardness in full drooling glory.

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