Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 08, 2024

For some reason, I was reminded of Jack Benny; even when he was in his 70s, he wouldn’t admit to being older than 39.

Just trump and vance….well, pretty much the maga republicans

Don’t women live 6 to 7 years longer than men? Even things out.

I had a lot of female bosses, so I wonder! (Most were nice and treated me well)!

For my current biology class, I’ll be writing a 10 page paper on an environmental toxin. I wanted to do it about Trump. Unfortunately, my instructor said the toxin could only have one deadly element that would upset human homeostasis. Since Trump has killed in many different ways, I chose the Death Camus instead. It only has one poison in its makeup.

paying women less for equal work is actually illegal. yet no one seems to sue over be a slam dunk…hmmmmmm…

oh and 90% of workplace deaths are men…so perhaps women pick the safer jobs, and thus get paid less for less dangerous work?

Fun fact: Even before wokedom, women earned more than men per unit of value they deliver, Today, in the era of DEI (didn’t earn it), the problem is sure to be even worse.

Pig is having difficulty proving he is not a robot. reCAPTCHA won’t let him access the data.

The new VP of Marketing never produced any new sales from several trade shows. Instead of calling existing customers every day from her desk to try to increase business, like her very productive predecessor, she got caught shopping for shoes online with her huge paycheck. Fired the next day.

Not the men in my family nor the friends I have made. Of course, we all be Southerners which can be a saving grace some times. Disappearing grace though it be.

Women don’t get equal pay for equal work. They get more pay for the same work, or equal pay for less work.

The paid less for equal work isn’t as prevalent as the media would have you think especially when you consider that many women still leave the workforce during child rearing years.

Now that the age topic is covered, let’s entertain the gender discrimination issue because according to the John Roberts’ Supreme Court, we no longer have racial discrimination./s

Nice myth you’re spreading there, Stephan. I guess if something is repeated enough people believe it’s a fact.

Now that the systematic destruction of the nuclear family is nearly complete, equality in the workplace should manifest. Of course there will be fewer children to grow into workers. But hey, equality!

Not true, if you control for job experience and the job itself.

Think about it: why would anyone ever hire a man, if a woman can be hired so much more cheaply.

As a wise man once said, there are statistics, darn (the real word is banned) statistics, and lies…

If truth be told… to me it looks like the men are usually being “spoken down to” by the women… well… in the comics, anyway!!

The equal pay for equal work slogan is a canard. When adjusted for things like years on the job (that is, people with more experience receive higher salaries), they’re paid approximately the same.

Plus many have beepable bewbies.

And one major political party thinks that the medical care you are eligible to receive should be determined by your ZIP Code.

We all have to go sometime.

I keep hoping that one day Pastis will get funny again. It’s been a long time.

Whoa! Why are people so touchy these days?

Why do husbands usually die before their wife? Because they want to.

Groan

Not buying it. If it were true that women get paid less for the same job, then why aren’t employers hiring only women to save money?

Which means women would be hired for EVERY position because businesses wouldn’t have to allocate so much for salaries. Yet, for some reason they don’t.

Every position that I have worked, if a woman is in that position, she earns the same amount. The woman gets to leave early to pick up her kids, not work late, because of her family. Take days off to care for sick child. Take days off because of cramps. And then they wonder why they don’t get promoted like a man. And that is in a law firm.

Women have to work twice as hard as men to be thought half as good . Fortunately, this is not difficult.

why don’t the women take more of the high risk jobs, like longshore workers, lumberjacks, oil rig workers, roofers, garbarge collectors?

Women typically live longer. That’s what I’ve heard.

One of the last female managers I had made $20,000 less than I did. That was extraordinarily unfair. I think it came down to me doing a better job of negotiating when I was hired.

Most of the comments about women’s pay here prove her second point.

So Pig has a friend named Karen.

It’s a demonstrable myth that women get paid less for equal work. And when it comes to speaking down to people, that’s done quite often by women… and even by women to women. Women think men are speaking down to them because women have insecurities, not because men are actually speaking down to them.

I have noticed that women tend to get overlooked for promotion, probably because the boss thinks in stereotypes, even if he doesn’t realize it. Where I used to work the “back office” – which were higher-level jobs – had some women, but the “front office” was ALL women. The boss even sometimes called them “the girls.” Old habits die hard.

There have been many matriarchal societies in history including Celtic, Lenape and Egyptian only to be destroyed by Christian values

I hate this myth. I have never had a job where a woman or girl was paid less than me, and I’m 53 now. I fact, at the job I’m at now, there is a woman who started same time as me, she is paid higher than me.Thos myth is based on the fact that more men apply to jobs that pay higher. Fewer woman want those jobs because they are danger and involve more physical labor.When you compare all the women in jobs to all the men, the other all result will be averaged to show women make less. But job for job, it is equal.

If you adjust for hours actually worked, I wonder how it would come out. Economists do this kind of thing. Anybody know?

I beg to differ … there was the time my whole body was overtaken by testosterone.

BS

That is still true, but it is improving in the U.S.

I’m with that old song, “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” when they grow up.

The pay gap is a myth debunked many times. IT DOESN’T EXISTS.

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Ever notice that the guys complaining about people getting paid for not working are the same ones who are perfectly OK with housewives working without getting paid?

The comedian Alan King had a famous routine—“Survived By His Wife”

WHO not “THAT”

Why do people cling to 1950’s data?

Not to mention work twice as hard and be twice as smart just to get the job.

Nailed it.

The Husband always dies first.

……… Why?

(Because he WANTS to).

While many men do have the tendency to speak down to women, I have been fortunate to earn as much or more than my male counterparts with equal experience and education. I also made the choice to not bear children so taking time off was never an issue. From what I have seen in industry, it is generally the mother who takes time away from work to tend to the needs of the children, whether it is appointments, school functions, or other needs. Taking time off will adversely affect your promotability whether you are male or female, which also affects your pay.

I went to work in a Union-shop; at least we started out even.

Truth. Have a warm glass of milk and go to bed.

Barking up the wrong tree here.

It’s a myth that women are paid less for equal work

A comparison is often made between unlike jobs, such as a typical “blue collar” job versus a stereotypical “pink collar” job. This isn’t an easy thing to settle. The word here is equitable, I believe. By the way, I think that in many cases, it isn’t that the women are underpaid or not being paid enough, it’s that the men are being paid too much! Back when I was starting out in a low level professional type position, about half of my peers were women and there was no obvious pay difference. However, the typical clerical employees (mostly all women) were definitely paid less, but the local garbage collectors were paid a lot more than any of us (I remember them being on strike, demanding a pay increase that was more than I was making in the first place! – I’m still annoyed by that).

That’s right, deep sea divers get paid more than cosmeticians. Men who hang from helicopters repairing high tension wires get more than baristas. When you compare men and women doing the same work, the difference falls into the statistical noise category. Also, what I truly find amazing, is the 77 cent number hasn’t changed one penny in 30 years. Funny, that.