2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: “If...” A Dog Whistle Only Women Can Hear [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)about it. Women work out of economic necessity, because there aren't enough good paying jobs for a stay at home parent in many 2 parent households and also because many businesses need/want cheaper workers, who are usually women. It's a vicious circle.
Because their dependence upon tax breaks and loopholes, insider deals, pork, lobbying, and various kinds of subsidies has advanced mediocrity into positions of economic power, Republicans promote vampire capitalism, which relies on debt and high profits and bonuses, rather than Real Value and talent, to fuel poor business models that cannot pay for the human (and other) resources that they use. Hence there is an economic NECESSITY of finding those who will do more for less, women and illegal immigrants and the young.
There's no "If..." about it; lower paid women/immigrants/anyone will always be used against better paid men, in order to milk more profit out of enterprises up front and for other profit takers and, thus, to avoid investing for the long-run, to avoid investing in the sorts of things that would make it un-necessary to depend upon systemic guarantees that pay un-equally for the same work.
When Republicans use the word "redistribution," THIS is the kind of redistribution we should be talking about.