re: Elizabeth Warren tweet

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Nah, but she might be willing to trade NewYork for a passel of votes.

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They usually say women with college degrees make 75cents on the dollar to what men make. Someone looked into the claim and found out that it is true, but easily explained by the differences in fields and the fact that men are more likely to work overtime, not take paternity leave, and be the ones who travel. When you look at the same field and the same working conditions women make 99cents to the dollar so basically the same.

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As are time in the position/experience.

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Two Vice Presidents of Marketing could make vastly different incomes if one has been there a year, and the other 30. Same position, though. The mental gymnastics they have to use to make these ludicrous arguments makes me exhausted

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LINK
Here's a lot of the data distilled down.

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But every "full-time" worker, as the BLS notes, is not the same: Men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour week earned 88% of male earnings.

Then there is the issue of marriage and children. The BLS reports that single women who have never married earned 96% of men's earnings in 2012.

The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market, so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males. Many working mothers seek jobs that provide greater flexibility, such as telecommuting or flexible hours. Not all jobs can be flexible, and all other things being equal, those which are will pay less than those that do not.

Education also matters. Even within groups with the same educational attainment, women often choose fields of study, such as sociology, liberal arts or psychology, that pay less in the labor market. Men are more likely to major in finance, accounting or engineering. And as the American Association of University Women reports, men are four times more likely to bargain over salaries once they enter the job market.

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What it looks like to me is:

Every single Democrat in the US Senate voted against equal merit-based pay for workers, regardless of race or gender.

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"Every single Republican in the US Senate voted against Equal pay for Equal work for Women. Unreal. " #equalpay

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