Rachel Maddow Reaffirms Pay Gap Argument Following Feud With Alex Castellanos
video by James Crugnale | 9:37 am, May 1st, 2012
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“Overall, if you aggregate everybody working in the economy in every job,” she said, “women get paid 77 cents for every dollar that men get paid. For the same work, dudes get paid more.”
“Women get paid less than men do. 77 cents on the dollar on average. That’s true. Democrats know that’s true. It is the accepted truth by anybody who’s looking at the facts of the matter. Republicans do not know that’s true. This seems important. I finally see this now. And it’s important both in terms of the facts but also in terms of the politics,” Maddow concluded:
If you recognize that there’s a problem with women getting paid less than men, a political party opposing or refusing to support policy to fix that problem seems like hostility toward women’s interests. If you don’t recognize there’s a problem with women getting paid less than men, then policy debates about how to fix something that’s not a problem don’t seem that important to you and so you downplay the importance of policy and you can’t understand why everybody keeps saying this war on women thing is going on. And your 17-point deficit with women voters, that’s just the product of not putting your candidate out there with enough women standing next to him regardless of how they vote and what they think. That brings us to what’s going be a central bet in the campaign, a central question. Does the country live in Republican world? Where women are getting paid less than men, somehow isn’t a problem…The Democratic side is making a bet that general election voters are not Republicans on the set of “Meet the Press.” They are betting that the average general election voter does not live in Republican world but rather in the reality based community where facts are useful for understanding what problems are and policy is useful for solving those problems.
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