So the gender wage gap is a thing, and Gov. Kasich isn’t really concerned

I read this yesterday, apparently, the gender wage gap between men and women under Gov. Kasich is about $10 an hour. The Dayton Daily News found that the average pay gap between men and women in four of five elected statewide officials has grown to almost $10 per hour, while it dropped to under one dollar in the rest of the state. This is compared to the gender wage gap under Gov. Ted Strickland, which was $3.99 per hour.

Gov. Kasich’s office has denied this saying that the newspaper didn’t take into account office staff and policy advisers from other state agencies that Kasich uses. When accounting for this, the gendered wage gap is $5.04 per hour, compared to Gov. Strickland’s $1.28 per hour.

Ohio’s gender wage gap over the past seven years averaged $1.09 per hour, and dropped to 86 cents per hour this year. The article talks a bit about Democratic challenger, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, which has a gender wage gap within his office of about $7.02 per hour.

Happy Equal Pay Day! Equality for All!

Wait just kidding. Women skill make 77 cents to the dollar that men make. Additionally, women's pay went up from 59 cents in 1970s. Yeah, that's not good. In fact I think we made more in the 80s, but I'm not sure.

But never fear some women are making money, but that is not the rule, but rather the exception.

American women who work full-time, year-round are paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts. This gap in earnings translates into $10,622 less per year in female median earnings, leaving women and their families shortchanged. The wage gap is even more substantial when race and gender are considered together, with African-American women making only 61 cents, and Latinas only 52 cents, for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.

And another low light:

Although women and their families are grappling with this tough economy around the country, there is not a single state where women have gained economic equality with men.23 In every state across the U.S., men earn more than women, impacting women across race, class, and occupation. The size of the disparity varies by state: In 2008, Washington, D.C. had the nation’s smallest wage gap, at 88%, well ahead of California, where women earned 84.9% of what men earned. The median of 75.9% is shared by the states of Connecticut, Kentucky, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania. Women fared worst relative to men in Wyoming, where women’s earnings represented only 64.3% of men’s earnings, the widest gap of any state.

Yep, completely equal, I don't see what these crazy broads are going on about. Check out the National Women's Law Center's Fact Sheet on it.

Celebrate Equal Pay Day...

Surprise, surprise, women still make less than men. Of course, we are making some headway, but I think we should be aware of the realities. Today is Equal Pay Day; we use this day to raise awareness of the pay disparity between men and women. It falls on a Tuesday because that is how long it takes for women to make what a man makes in a week.

Today also happens to be the day a new study on the wage gap was released...some highlights:
Largest wage gap: Wyoming
Narrowest gap: District of Columbia (suck it!)
Largest college educated wage gap: Nevada