The gender wage gap is phony politics

Did everybody flunk high school history? Anybody that has run a business knows that in 1964, it became illegal to discriminate on pay by race or sex under the Civil Rights Act. If you did, you could be arrested and sued.

Since that is a fact, how is it that women do indeed only make 79 percent of what men make on average? There are two major reasons.

First, women choose not to work in the most dangerous jobs that pay the highest wages while men do. You don't find many women working as roofers, loggers, heavy construction, foundry work, etc., which pay far more than less-dangerous jobs.

Second, women work fewer hours on average than men do, which means that they make less money even if they make exactly the same per-hour pay as men do.

Women make the choice not to work these high-paying, dangerous jobs and to work fewer hours than men and that is fine. But they can't complain about making less money for their own choices.

The hard facts say that if you eliminate the impact of these two choices by women on their own pay, woman make 95 percent of what men make.

In our factory, 50 percent of our workers were women and they made precisely the same wage per hour as men did for doing the same job. To the penny!

Not only was that the moral thing to do, it was the law. This phony gender pay gap hype is designed to create uninformed hatred in women to benefit Democrats.

The facts are out there and the law is the law. Sadly, in our hate-filled politics today, facts just don't seem to matter anymore.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake