Martha
Burk v. Warren Farrell
on the 'Wage Gap'
The average American woman earns only 76
cents for every dollar a man earns. Feminists have long argued
that this is the result of sexism. Men's activists and dissident
feminists counter that the gap is caused by the different career
and lifestyle choices men and women make, and that it is often
the responsibilities of motherhood, not discrimination, which
hold women's wages back.
Martha
Burk, Chair of the
National
Council of Women's Organizations, believes that discrimination
is pervasive in corporate America. In her new book
Cult of
Power: Sex Discrimination in Corporate America and What Can
Be Done About It she claims to have uncovered daily
discrimination against women at their companies. She calls for
companies to do "gender equity audits" on layoffs by gender
and job category, new hires by gender and their pay averages,
and new board members by gender.
Warren Farrell is the author of
Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap --
and What Women Can Do About It. He contends that when
all relevant factors are considered, women make at least as
much as comparable men--and quite possibly more.
Burk and Farrell debated the 'Wage Gap'
on His Side with Glenn Sacks
on Sunday, May 22. To listen to the audio archive of the show,
click here.
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