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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Hollywood Hypocrisy and Gender Pay Gap Fiction – Ep. 55

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

Business, Politics, News, Investing, Business News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary



* 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
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0:00.0

About Peter Schiff Show

0:05.0

Well, I got to talk about the irony and the hypocrisy of Patricia Arquette and her

0:16.5

speech when she was accepting the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

0:23.4

She had a maker political statement about women and how women are oppressed and they

0:29.8

are discriminated against and they don't have equal rights to men because they are not

0:35.4

paid as much as men.

0:37.4

To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought

0:45.8

for everybody else's equal rights.

0:48.2

It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the

0:55.0

United States of America.

1:00.0

Supposedly, including female employers, both female and male employers are discriminating

1:08.0

against women and just deliberately paying them, what, 77 cents on the dollar, whatever

1:13.4

the number is, to do the exact same work as men, right?

1:16.7

You can just go out and hire women and they'll do the same job as men only for a lot less

1:21.7

money, right?

1:22.7

And so they don't have equal rights.

1:25.3

And of course, this is all complete nonsense.

1:28.5

And the reason I said is ironic and hypocritical.

1:30.7

I mean, even more so on the part of all the women in the audience, like the Merrill Streep's

1:35.0

or whatever, they're all clapping, standing up, cheering, you know, they got their fists

1:39.4

in the air.

1:40.4

Rah, rah, yeah, you go girl, right?

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