WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Donald J. Trump’s administration continues its efforts to expand worker freedom, Independent Women’s Center for Economic Opportunity issued the following statements calling out and correcting misleading narratives promoted on Equal Pay Day, marked each year on March 26:
Patrice Onwuka, vice president for economic policy at Independent Women, said:
“Equal Pay Day is as fake as the gender pay gap. Both are used to paint women as victims and deny them agency. The truth is that the choices American women get to make, such as how many or few hours to work, the types of career paths and occupations to pursue, and the industries to work in, explain the difference in median or average earnings between men and women. Instead of forcing all women to accept a one-size-fits-all standard of success, let’s focus on protecting self-employment and freelancing as pathways that women can use to build the life and careers they desire.”
Carrie Lukas, president of Independent Women, said:
“Do those promoting Equal Pay Day even know what a woman is? How can they confidently talk about differences in men’s and women’s earnings when all those men may actually prefer to identify as women? Once again, far left radicals use women as a political tool when it’s helpful to them. They talk about ‘women’s’ interests when it suits them to push restrictive labor laws and enrich trial lawyers. Yet they don’t have the common sense or basic respect for women to say that a convicted male rapist shouldn’t be able to live in women’s facilities just because he claims to feel like a woman.”
See more below from the Center for Economic Opportunity on Equal Pay Day and what women really need to succeed in the workforce:
- The Equal Pay Hoax Is Dead. Choices Are Women’s Real Empowerment.
- Here are 6 Women-Dominated Industries This Equal Pay Day
- Two Truths and a Lie: Equal Pay Day
- Give women more choice at work this Equal Pay Day
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