Kamala Peddles Myths to Celebrate Equal Pay Day

BUCK: The White House doesn’t learn the proper lessons from the failures and from the poor decision-making that it engages in on a regular basis. They do something, the outcome is bad, and they keep doing more of it. They say, if only we doubled down, then things will get better. That’s one defining characteristic of the Biden regime. Another one is that they will still focus on things that do not matter and even in some cases do not even exist, do not even exist. Equal Pay Day is based upon the myth that there is widespread, systemic pay inequity based on sexism.

You’ve probably heard this. You know, women only earn 71 cents on the dollar, the number changes, 75 cents, whatever it is, something like that. And when they actually look at this in a real way, when they don’t create studies the way they create mask studies now where they don’t have a control group and they just are trying to come up with an excuse to push a modeling approach. “We modeled this on a computer, so here’s the answer.”

“Well, what went into your model?”

“Be quiet. Don’t ask questions.”

Equal Pay Day is a thing now. I don’t even know this I think it’s March 7th every year, Equal Pay Day. And Kamala Harris, because if you ever want someone to represent merit, hard work, and the top level of skills in one’s profession, everybody thinks of Kamala. Kamala Harris at the Equal Pay Day summit. Here she is at the usual. Please. Oh, I think so.

HARRIS: Our economy just has not been working as it should for the women of our nation. Across industries women are less likely to be hired than equally qualified men. They are paid less and promoted slower for doing similar work. Women are routinely shut out of good jobs in high paying industries such as science and technology, construction and truck driving in partly because our society tells women that some industries are just not for them.

BUCK: This is just not true. This is one of these things the left keeps saying, keep saying, and every time it’s debunked, you come back to the, it’s not true. The wage decisions reflect personal choices, they reflect economic reality, they reflect hours worked in, they reflect the difficulty and risks of different professions. Clay, you ran a business, very successful business, been acquired by Fox. If you could save 30% of all personnel costs

CLAY: That’s my argument every time. That’s my argument every time. Anybody who has ever run a business, if you told me that women only made 70% of what men make, why would every business in America not exclusively hire women and save 30% on their labor costs? And what’s frustrating about this, it’s just a lie.

But what’s also frustrating about this is, if you really want to focus on women and the challenges they’re facing right now, Buck, it’s the two-year anniversary of “15 days to slow the spread.” Do you know the overwhelming group of works out there that bore the brunt of the shutdown and the lockdown? Women. Because women overwhelmingly bear responsibility for child care in this country. So shutting down schools and not allowing women to work — I believe — I’m not sure we’ve gotten back there yet — we were at a 30-year low for female participation in the workforce early in this year or late and last year as the ravages and impacts of the shutdowns continued.

So if you really wanted to have a nuanced, intelligent discussion about the challenges to women, it would have been a discussion about how all of the experts, in quotation marks, failed, and women bore the brunt of their failures when they shut down schools and when they shut down the economy. Remember, we’re still over two million fewer people working today than were working when the shutdowns happened back in March of 2020.

BUCK: There’s also in this equal pay — you know, this pay disparity myth a gender negation component, because the left insists that women and men, if left to their own devices, will just make the exact same professional choices. And so when it doesn’t actually sort out that way, it must be because of misogynistic gender discrimination, which is a very simplistic and really kind of Marxist view about how all this stuff actually works.

Let’s start with this one. Veterinarians, for example, veterinarians are highly paid, and it’s a profession that is dominated statistically by women. It’s not all women, but it’s something like 60, 65%, a solid majority of veterinarians across the country. They make a lot of money. Are men being excluded from that or are more women choosing that? There’s also nursing. There’s primary school instruction. There’s these areas where women make choices that are reflected in the marketplace because women are more likely to do, let’s say, veterinarian work and less likely to be on one of those freezing cold ships where they pull the tuna out of the Bering Sea that they made the show of, you know?

CLAY: Well, biology — Deadliest Catch, fantastic show.

BUCK: Thank you.

CLAY: Biology is real. And biology is real. And every man who’s married out there and has ended up having kids, by and large, a huge percentage of you have found out that women plan far better for having children than men do because they are aware of the challenges that come with having children in a way — and I’ll put myself in this category — frankly, that I never was. And they also, again, bear so much of the responsibility for child care that the people who were failed the most by lockdowns, number one, were kids. Number two were moms. And that’s why we have to have real consequences in the midterm elections coming up very soon. Women are angry. They need to have their votes counted and heard in a monstrous way.