Gender Bias in the Workplace?

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 requires employers to pay equally regardless of gender if the work and work environment are the same, seniority is the same, quality and quantity of output is the same and other work standards, other than gender, are the same. It is illegal for employers to pay men and women differently under these conditions.

Most of the statistics that are used to “prove” wage discrimination based on gender ignore the law. It is true that a doctor's office with two male doctors and two female nurses, a female billing clerk and a female receptionist will pay males more than females per capita. It is not discrimination under the law because training and skill are different for the males and the females in this example. If a female science teacher with 20 years of experience is paid less than a male science teacher with one year of experience and all other variables are equal, then the employer has probably broken the law and may be sued or put in prison.

We discriminate based on race and gender all of the time. We pass affirmative action laws which give one race preference over another in hiring and promotion and admission to schools. We require males to register for the draft at age 18, but not females.

The arguments based on lies or bad statistics work because government schools in general produce voters without the ability to think critically; who haven't studied our founding documents; and are fed error by an ignorant media who went to those government schools. The director of the Christian school where my children were taught told the students often that “thinking is permitted at all times – without permission!”