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A new video obtained by NBC News shows Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters disputing any gender pay gap while insisting that men earn more because they do the risky and most dangerous jobs.
In the video, taken at a candidate forum in Scottsdale on February 4, Masters made the claims as he argued against the need for the Equal Rights Amendment, a measure which would constitutionally prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex.
Women are not paid less in America than men, Masters said. Its a left wing narrative, this gender pay gap. When you control for the occupations, when you control for people taking time out to, you know, birth children, things are actually pretty equal. And men do the most dangerous jobs.
He continued: Men are the ones who are doing risky, you know, fishingcrab in Alaska. And sometimes those jobs pay more. Sometimes those jobs pay more, and so I think we got to push back on the fake left wing narrative that women dont have equal rights in this country.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/gender-pay-gap-just-left-wing-narrative-ariz-senate-candidate-said-rcna28327?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Is he trying to imply all jobs men have are like crab fishing in Alaska?
KarenS
(4,075 posts)he and Jim Lamon are trying to outdo each other with the Trumpish-stuff!!