Conservative women's org: EqualPayDay is 'misleading effort' to make women feel slighted at work
While Equal Pay Day was celebrated by many as a time to shed light on the pay gap between men and women in the workplace, a conservative women’s advocacy group argued it imparted on women that they’re lesser than their male counterparts.
Not everyone was quick to champion the dedicated day and lambast the gender wage gap, though. The Independent Women’s Forum , a conservative non-profit advocacy group that focuses on policies affecting women, said they couldn’t get behind Equal Pay Day, calling it a “misleading effort” to make women feel they’re being “short-changed” at the workplace.
The organization noted that both wage discrimination and “baseless gender discrimination” are illegal and said proponents of the wage gap use a misleading interpretation of wage data. IWF claimed the data didn’t compare men and women with the same jobs, experience, training or hours that were worked.
The organization debunked two “myths,” surrounding the wage gap conversation—that women choose low paying jobs and if they want to be paid more they should have a better education and skills.
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