“Women earn 82 cents for every dollar that a man earns,” is a phrase we hear often reverberated from the left. There are rallies with signs, graphics on social media, and countless columns arguing for equal pay for women using this slogan. This must mean that women need the government to intervene on our behalf, right?
Pay discrimination on the basis of sex is already illegal. According to the Equal Pay Act of 1963:
No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions.
Equal pay is the law of the land. As it should be.
Furthermore, this 82-cent statistic doesn’t compare a man and woman in the same job. This number compares the median earnings of full-time working men to full-time working women. What it does not take into account are different...
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