Gingrich Worried about Male Pay Inequity
No, the title of this post is not a typo. From our friends over at Think Progress, there's this:
Last week, GOP presidential primary candidate Newt Gingrich appeared at Harvard to talk about his campaign. At the conclusion of his speech, he fielded questions from students that were recorded and uploaded to YouTube. One student asked the former House speaker about the pay gap between men and women. Gingrich completely dismissed this gap.
Yes, you read that right. Gingrich is more concerned with men facing pay inequity. In fact, here's exactly what he said:
[I]f anything, you’ll be here in fifteen years wondering what we’ll do about men inequality and male unemployment.
Courtesy of Progress Women, we've got these stats for Mr. Gingrich if he ever decides to address pay equity issues in Missouri, where we're no where close to seeing equity for women as they see only 75¢ for every dollar earned by a full-time male worker, essentially making $616/week to the $819/week of their male colleagues. To add insult to injury, the gap in Missouri is 6% greater than the average gap across the United States and is larger than the wage gap our neighboring states.
Mr. Gingrich, I'll eat my hat if I'm wondering about pay inequality for men in 15 years.
