Explaining about why men were charged more than women at a recent SDSU bake sale, "It's just to raise awareness," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Amanda Whitehead reportedly said, "A lot of people don't realize that white women make 75 percent of every dollar a white man makes or Hispanic women make 50 percent. It's pretty ridiculous".
In April the San Diego Union Tribune ran “Marking Equal Pay Day in the U.S.”, by Myrra Lee, past President of the La Mesa/El Cajon American Association of University Women (AAUW), who noted “Thirty-seven years from now, in 2044, will be the year in which California women will receive approximately the same wages that men will achieve by working one year – from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.”
First, any information from flibbertigibbet NOW and AAUW is suspect. In 1991, the AAUW announced: “Most [girls] emerge from adolescence with a poor self-image.” The AAUW ballyhooed that into girls were horrendously disadvantaged in our school systems, a devastating myth destroyed by Professor Christina Hoff Sommers in her book “The War Against Boys.” The AAUW ushered in “Take Your Daughter to School Day”, which after public outcry changed to Take Your Daughter/Son to School Day so boys could participate. Worse, the AAUW Advocacy Fund has been instrumental in the Title IX debacle, which morphed from a laudable expansion of women’s school sports to the arguably decimation of free speech on college campuses, all under the guise of gender discrimination.
As Lee correctly implies women do have more options to leave and re enter the workforce; but, women, by choice, typically don’t take long hours, dangerous, high paying jobs; like, commercial fishing, truck driving in Iraq, ironworking, diesel mechanics, or window cleaning 80 stories up. Women typically seek "soft jobs".
When discussing college educated women and wage disparity at least Lee focuses on the few fields where a disparity exists, albeit for legitimate reasons having nothing to do with gender discrimination, but fails to highlight the numerous fields in which women’s remuneration outstrips that of men, particularly in Engineering fields where NOW, the AAWU, and other myopic radical feminist organizations typically maintain the pay gap is the greatest.
Whitehead on the other hand offers no such distinction. Instead she proferred stereotypical, incomplete, and misdirectional assertions which do little but perpetuate anti-man and racist (white only) ideology. Any white male student might be disciplined or perhaps expelled for even whispering similar generalizations about black or hispanic women, even if factual.
Business Week’s article earlier this month, “Surprise! Women on the Board Earn More,” takes the debate to a new level by reporting “The Corporate Library, a corporate governance and executive compensation research group, reports the median earnings for female corporate directors is $120,000. That's about $15,000 higher than the median total compensation for male directors, which is $104,375…the study, which looked at the pay of more than 25,000 directors at more than 3,200 companies”.
In August 2007, in Women Earn More in U.S. Big Cities than Men, Reuters reported that, “The research, completed by the Department of Sociology at Queens College in New York, showed full-time female employees in their 20s surpassing same-age males in cities like Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Dallas and New York…In Dallas, these women earn 20 percent more than men, while in New York City they earn 17 percent more”.
Last year in “Why Men Earn More”, Dr. Warren Farrell clearly established that women college graduates starting salaries in many professional fields is higher than men, like Petroleum engineering (108%), Computer programming (117%), Agricultural engineering (110%), careers in humanities (130%), Chemistry (103%)… Farrell lists another 39 major fields where women’s median pay is more than men, like Sales engineers (143%), Engineering managers (108%), Financial analysts (118%), Legislators (133%), transportation workers (130%)…
Refusing to believe NOW @ SDSU’s spurious pandering, finance and statistics senior Adam Hyman passed out free doughnuts to men at the bake sale, “(I did this) to prove a point that if a woman were really getting paid 75 percent of what a man is, they could just quit their job and go work for somebody else… If this discrimination was real, then a company that only hires women would be better at business”. Or, as Warren Farrell has said, “If women make 75% (or, 50%) of what men make why would anyone hire a man?”
Bernice Kanner’s 2004 book Pocketbook Power, reports that women spend $6 trillion a year; or, 600 times the value of the gold in Fort Knox. Women make 88 percent of the retail purchases in America. Among other things, women buy 53 percent of all stocks, 51% of all sports equipment, 85% of all toilet tissue, and 88% of all health insurance... and, control two-thirds of the wealth in America.
One might wonder where women get all the money they spend, particularly if they earn so much less than do men. Then again, there’s alimony, child support, and inheritance, but that’s another discussion…oh, and also, according to Kanner, primary ways women achieve wealth.
If all that were not enough it appears Whitehead and her discriminatory cookie pricing violated California's Unruh Act which forbids discrimination based on gender. Each violation, that is, each time NOW @ SDSU sold a cookie, could be worth up to $4,000 to the man who had the sweet tooth. If NOW @ SDSU sold 100 cookies to men then NOW @ SDSU and its parent organization might be liable for $400,000. Though for sure the deep pocket National Organization of Women would most likely pay the fines.
"It's just to raise awareness," said Whitehead, since a lot of people don’t realize how underpaid are women compared to white men, which she felt was “pretty ridiculous”.
Most people don’t realize the truth either because of questionable crusaders like Whitehead, Myra Lee, and organizations like NOW and the AAUW, a sophistic and destructive complotment far beyond ridiculous.
The fact is that American women are the most catered to, well educated, protected, and wealthy women in the world. Maybe by 2044, thirty-seven years from now, awareness will rise sufficiently so men can be free too.
Take Care,
Harry Crouch
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