LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Google celebrated Equal Pay Day Tuesday with the statement “Google supports equal pay,” followed by the hashtag #20PercentCounts on its search engine. The hashtag #20PercentCounts links to the YouTube channel Lean In, where a video entitled “#20PercentCounts: See what 20% less looks like” begins automatically playing. (Photo: Google…
by Guy Bentley Feminist organizations and gender pay gap campaigners are once again peddling the statistically suspect claim that women are paid substantially less than men for the same work. Tuesday, April 12, has been dubbed Equal Pay Day because this day allegedly represents how far into the year women have to work to make as…
April 12th is Equal Pay Day, a day which marks when women have “caught up” to what men earned the previous year. This day is based on the oft-repeated statistic that women make 77 cents per every man’s dollar. Did you know that statistic only compares the median wages of all full-time male and female workers?…