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This guy. Seriously.
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John Oliver is a shill
One can make a case for anything when you pick and choose which arguments you wish to cite and which you leave out. You could convince a primitive Amazonian tribesman that Saddam Hussein was a good man if you only showed them pictures of him throwing bread to the homeless and playing with injured children.
We have different opinions over the definition of the word “bullshit.”
Your wage is a reflection of society’s demand for your skills. In what world are hair stylists and daycare staff more valued than roughnecks and machinists?
He’s talking about the salary difference between men and women in the same profession. The issue is that men and women who are equally qualified and do the exact same job are not paid equally. It wasn’t about society’s demand for a particular skill and the difference in pay between men and women in different professions.
When Obama said “Full-time, working woman”, he made no distinction about pay difference being within the same profession. Full-time (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics) is consider 35+ hours/week, but beyond that, it does not account for number of hours worked. It could mean 35 hours, or it could mean 80 hours. According to the BLS, men employed full-time work 7.9% more hours per person on an average day. That number jumps to 15.3% if you look at weekends/holidays where there is often some sort of incentive pay. I realize this doesn’t cover the full “77 cents for every dollar”, but this is just one example where the terminology is spun to support a particular agenda. For Obama, it had nothing to do with women’s pay, but rather women’s votes.
And just so you know I’m not full of bullshit:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t04.htm
regarding the john/jennifer 4k pay gap: a recent study found that every letter over 4 (in a name) caused a sharp drop in average pay. Not saying that is what caused it, but it could have slightly influenced things.