Tripling Down On Innumeracy
By Mitch Berg
It’s a generally known fact that the ‘Gender Pay Gap” is nothing but a rhetorical trap to gull the gullible. Yes, all women make 77% of what all men make – but that’s almost entirely a matter of choice, As this bit from PragerU explains, the college majors that pay the best after graduation – things like Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Computer science – are, despite decades of outreach and cajoling young women to try ’em out, overwhelmingly male. In the meantime the degrees that pay least – Early Childhood Education, Human Services, Social Work – are overwhelmingly female. Add in choices like taking time off to raise families, and virtually the entire pay gap is explainable by choice.
But our nation’s media class, set to work as it is mongering our nation’s grievances, won’t be letting that out.
Last Friday was “Black Womens’ Equal Pay Day” – observing the notion that black women earn 68% of what white men get.
Full stop.
That’s it.
No breakdown of majors. No analysis of choices – one wonders if our shrieking classes think “critical thought” is “racist”, too.
Wonder what our society would be like if we had a group – perhaps with printing presses and transmitters, maybe staffed by a pseudo-monastic order of information seekers – that would ask questions about this sort of thing, rather than serving as stenographers and press-release regurgitators.
But I dream.
August 18th, 2020 at 3:27 pm
And it can all be blamed on the Democrat party!
August 18th, 2020 at 4:07 pm
They get their message out on all media.
You politely point out that it is incorrect.
You are losing becasue you think that you are having a rational discussion with your political opponents to determine the best public policy that protects our freedom.
They are winning because they know that this is only a struggle to determine who and whom. The topic does not matter, they are struggling to make certain that they are who, and you are whom.
August 19th, 2020 at 12:37 pm
Pretty sure Critical Thought HAD been declared as evil, horrible, no good, very bad, racist, white supremacist, and patriarchal by our Betters in Academia.