Hollywood Hypocrisy and Gender Pay Gap Fiction – Ep. 55

The Peter Schiff Show

  • Patricia Arquette claims that there is a still an unfair gender wage gap in the labor market
  • If that were true, all employers – male and female – would hire women first, because they are more cost effective employees
  • But they don’t
  • Women who choose to balance family with career often accept lower-paying positions
  • Women do not make less money for the same work
  • They make less money for different work
  • In Hollywood, youth is an asset for women – for men, not as much.
  • Male action movie stars can earn more because action movies earn more.
  • Liberal spin promotes a government “solution” for a free market system that is working