Let's Focus Only On Women

In the US It's Women's Equality Day, and this is the White House Response.

Starts off with good intentions, of course focusing on women since its Women's Equality Day, or as I like to call it, Women's Focus Day, since as the article progresses, one find's equality has nothing to do with the article despite the often repeating of the word.

For example, right from the get go, the first graph shows that participation in the workforce is changing, and that its going down for both men and women.  Nothing equal there, just discouraging news knowing that the workforce in America has a huge supply with little demand. Here's an idea, send men out to work as they have done, while the ladies concede and help in the home raising the family so that everyone can have an income, home, and family. Not a bad way to make a living. But since women want to actually 'earn' their own money, that will never happen.

Next up college attendance. Women have been going as far back as it shows, but now have outpaced men considerably and since the 90's. SO what's the response? "Women now make up the majority of college and graduate students. Nice work!"

So much for equality, since the plan is to grow the gap in favor of women still. Though hard to ascertain,  you'd have to see the fact that its negatively affecting boys programs despite the assurance that it's not, but full steam ahead.

On to women in male dominated fields. Not sure what the issue is here, since they are already in male dominated fields, but not in high enough numbers, which if we are to go by the last figure as an indication of where she would like it to be, I'm sure when women make up 60% of male dominated jobs, she won't stop there. And what about female dominated jobs? Well, let's just say that advocating for men in these fields is a joke.  We don't even trust men around children, so how can we expect them to be teachers, librarians, day-care workers, etc.? Those fields aren't even lucrative, so how can they support a family, alimony and child support on those income levels? Men go where the money is, and that is the cold hard fact of life when it comes to work and gender. Are feminist's like Obama and Biden working to help men in female dominated fields? Not a single source exists that supports this, and for that matter not a single source exists showing feminist's in general support this. Stone cold silence.

Next up, pay gap. I cannot comprehend how they can put a graph of median weekly earnings showing women earning 30% more than men per week, and straight-facedly also put up a graph and paragraph about how the wage gap still exists in favor of men.  The link provided for equal pay is a dud, and Obama's Lilly Ledbetter Equal Pay Act of 2009 has not helped. People talk about wages in the workplace, but that is still a private matter. I don't like sharing my income levels with my co-workers, especially those I supervise. Let them speculate all they want, and if they really care they can do some research into the company and find out themselves. Having an executive order prohibiting discussion of earnings in a company is pointless because people do it anyway, and there is nothing wrong with it provided it doesn't violate privacy policies. Matter of fact I'm glad that there is a Presidential Memorandum instructing the Secretary of Labor to establish new regulations requiring federal contractors to submit to the Department of Labor summary data on compensation paid to their employees, including data by sex and race because it will show that there is no discrimination based on those attributes of a worker.

Equal pay for equal work is equal, so ignoring all the various reasons why a gap would exist does not change the fact that there is little to no discrimination against women in the workforce when it comes to pay. Here is a link to a dozen sources, and is one of 30 that have I used in past posts.

 

Lastly, what is considered equal after all? Something to think about when it comes to fair pay, how maybe what I think is fair isn't to the next person, so because of this, fair pay for work may never be achievable since disagreement from person to person will always exist.

The remainder of the article goes on about the wage gap, and there are some important points of consideration.

"...with the right policy changes, we can jump back up the leaderboard and help expand opportunity for millions of women. Paid leave and other policies that enable workers to better balance work and family obligations could help boost female labor force participation. One study estimated that U.S. female labor force participation would be 6.8 percentage points higher if the U.S. had implemented a suite of family-friendly policies."

Maternity leave, day care, all things that companies have for women. Are they as good as other countries? Maybe not, but it's how our economy is geared. If it was profitable for have those programs for women who choose maternity, then the companies would do it because companies are about making a profit first and foremost. Implementing more family-friendly policies would hurt profits considerably, otherwise companies would do it, but since they are all about making money and not focusing on female participation, we see women choosing not to work as much. By the way what would happen ifcompanies focused on women's issues first?

And now the final point, "Highly-educated women with professional degrees tend to begin their careers at approximately the same salary level as their male counterparts, but as their careers progress, a gender gap opens up. By their late 30's, men with professional degrees earn 50% more than their female counterparts."

Obama has not helped the situation because his policies fail to the reason why. Women opt out because they have children and leave the workforce to become full time mothers. While most will claim they're "independent," they're anything but.  The government has so many programs in favor of women, which is how they intend to fix the problem of 'deserved pay'. Some kind of make-work government job, some kind of professorship nobody asked for, or begging and pleading for donations to some kind of "activist group."  While producing nothing of value they require the state to transfer other people's money to create jobs and welfare programs for these women.  It's even pointed out, point blank, more government money for women and/or their children in government policy. How is this not hurting the economy when the private sector, the revenue generating  sector, is being sucked dry to fund these otherwise parasitic programs?

Women's equality Day is a joke because to proclaim that women have achieved equality, and then some, and then in the next breath talk about how more needs to be done to help women only, is insulting to men, and to people who care about the future of our country. Women have achieved equality, the numbers say so, but we need to do more because it's not equal enough. It is bare faced social engineering to benefit the elite while the other 99% are worked to death.  We'll wake up in 50yrs time in horror and wonder what the hell has happened...