2010 has been a great disappointment for women who were hoping for change.
Jennifer Lawless brings up an excellent point regarding successful women in politics. 2010 was a disappointment for many women who were hoping to see successful groundbreakers make way for women to come. Instead, women have lost ground in government, at least among Democrats.
Why?
"For the first time in 30 years, the number of women serving in the U.S. House of Representatives will likely decrease," Lawless writes. That can be filed under Not Good, which is between Oh Crap and Why Bother in the Bon's cabinet.
Meanwhile, a new surge of people are protesting the amount of pay women make compared to their male counterparts. Obama was outspoken about this while campaigning but has fallen short of major improvement. Some estimate that women earn 77% as much as men in the same jobs and equivalent experience. There is some haggling and debate about the figure, but that avoids the point that even a far smaller percentage is still unacceptable.
"Some estimate that women earn 77% as much as men in the same jobs and equivalent experience. There is some haggling and debate about the figure, but that avoids the point that even a far smaller percentage is still unacceptable."
ReplyDeleteApparently your reading comprehension skills are as bad as Zandar's are. If it's not the race card being played for as an excuse as why people aren't making as much as white men, it's the feminism card.
Government intervention in the free market creates permanent inequalities in the system. When the government tries to force all workers to be paid the same, they all suffer. Not all pay is equal because not all workers are equal.
Shorter anonymous: Men get paid more because men are better than women. Also, whites get paid more than blacks because whites are better. And white men... yeah, you get the idea.
ReplyDeleteThere, that saved about five seconds of everyone's life.