The Gender Pay Gap and FCKH8
Saturday, October 25, 2014 by Jonathan R. Gibbons inFCKH8.com released this hysterical, yet poignant, video of young girls cursing while laying out some of the various issues women still face in the United States. You may watch the video below:
Every gender issue that FCKH8 mentions is indeed very real and concerning, but at least one– and perhaps more –of the statements is exaggerated, and obviously not fully researched. My focus of criticism is on this statement:
Women make 23% less than men for the exact same f*cking work. I shouldn’t need a penis to get paid.
FCKH8 doesn’t provide a source for this statement anywhere I could find, but I suspect they took it from a statement former President Jimmy Carter made earlier this year. The problem is that the statement is not true. PolitiFact rated this claim mostly false earlier this year, explaining (my emphasis):
The number… comes from a U.S. Census Bureau study that looked at the total wages earned by male and female workers. The study found men’s total wages were about 23 percent higher than the total amount of women’s wages. But that large discrepancy was due in part to the fact that men generally work more hours. The study did not attempt to look at equal pay for the same work or the same number of hours worked.
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