If she's not willing to compel women to negotiate for the best salaries in highest paying occupations, while working longer hours in uninterrupted careers, it's all just noise.

The pay gap is almost entirely a manifestateion of different choices.

the workplace. nice way of blaming the women for the patriarchal bs.

Jesus Christ on a crutch!

they just end up sounding that way.

Hope springs eternal; maybe a third reply from you will contain something pertinent to the conversation.

Cuts the bullshit right away -- I know, I worked for a large company where this was the case. It was open and demonstrably compensation based on education, experience and job performance.

BTW, women who negotiate for pay in the same manner as men are less successful because they're viewed as too aggressive and self-centered

which is part of HRC's proposed pay equity platform.

That said, very little of the pay gap manifests between co-workers. The pay gap is almost entirely a result of the fact that tire shop employees working 44 hours a week make more money than child care providers working 36.

or other factors hauled out by persons who want to dismiss gender-based pay discrimination. I'd call 40% more than "very little" but perhaps you view it differently.

Exaggerating the problem by a factor of five doesn't do anything to solve it.

At the very event in which Clinton spoke, and is the subject of the OP, Bill Clinton said this:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/2016/01/bill_clinton_goes_to_bat_for_hillary_in_granite_state

"I thought she was the most amazing person because, unlike now where more than half of law students in america are women, then they were a distinct minority. There she was in Yale law school. She could have written her ticket to go anywhere she wanted. All she was really interested in was providing legal services to poor people. When we got out, she could have gone to work for a big law firm - get a fancy clerkship - but she took a job with the children's defense fund."

Pamela Coukas
http://blog.dol.gov/2012/06/07/myth-busting-the-pay-gap/

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About 40% of the wage gap can not be explained away by elements like the ones I listed above or by average paid hours of work per week. Read the link.

It also fails math. 15% (the amount of pay gap expected due to hours worked) divided by 22% = .68

In other words, 68% of the pay gap is explained by the difference in work hours alone before accounting for occupation, career, union membership, etc.

Yes, the link was broken but it doesn't fail math. Your interpretation is the mail fail.

For example, your 7% citation from an AAUW study is of a small segment of the workforce, namely college graduates one year after graduation.

I can listen to that man all day.

But you'll have to excuse me for reattaching my head after reading this:

The pay gap is almost entirely a manifestateion of different choices