| > The article is refuting a strawman This is simply not true. How often have you heard the phrase "equal pay for equal work"? That phrase literally implies that for the same work, women are paid less. That is what people mean when they say it, and because it is so common, it is a very worthy myth to debunk. Some evidence it is not a strawman: 1) College Humor video strongly implying that a woman is being paid significantly less than all of the men around her. 2) President Obama in a 2015 SOTU address saying that a law should be passed saying that a women should be paid the same as a man for doing the same work. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3YfMtgEdI [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayO4vl6YZoo Moreover, this myth is actually deleterious, because focusing on trying to ensure equal pay for equal work will be futile and a waste of attention so long as the real causes of disparities are ignored. |