http://www.fathers.bc.ca/feminist_myths.htm
Myth: Women earn $0.XX per man's $1.00 for the same work. (The $0.XX claimed varies wildly)
False. This myth refuses to take into account important considerations such as actual hours worked (!), training, job commitment, etc.
Myth: Men control more money than women.
False. Men work for and earn more money, but women control more than 65% of US personal wealth, and spend 4 consumer dollars for every consumer dollar that men spend.
Myth: Women's standard of living falls after divorce while men's rises.
False. This myth is based on an "advocacy" study by Lenore Weitzmann that has been long debunked, for use of unrepresentative samples, misleading arithmetic, insistence on counting payments from the ex-husband to the ex-wife as if he still possessed the money, and so forth. Weitzmann openly broke the American Sociological Association's Code Of Ethics but has yet to be disciplined for it.
2007-08-10
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