HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-23-22 Public Comment - T. Burnett - Objection to CEDAWFrom:agenda@bozeman.net
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Date:Wednesday, March 23, 2022 4:15:23 PM
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Email:
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Mail to:
Attn: City Commission
PO Box 1230
Bozeman, MT 59771
First Name Tom
Last Name Burnett
Email Address burnett.tom@gmail.com
Phone Number 4065397075
Comments
My objection to City of Bozeman CEDAW Resolution 5384
(CEDAW stands for Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
I oppose Resolution 5384.
Assertions about female-male pay disparities cannot be sustained by the facts.
Women make at least 98% of what men make, not 83% as cited in a guest column in the Bozeman Daily
Chronicle.
“There are many media reports of a gender gap, often claiming that women are paid only about 80% of
what men are paid. But that number is comparing the total amount of salary paid to men and to women in
this country. It does not take into account such crucial factors as profession, qualifications, type of
employer, seniority, hours worked or many other things that go into deciding compensation. When these
basic factors are taken into account, the gender pay gap vastly decreases. For example, PayScale issued a
report entitled: “The State of Gender Pay Gap 2019” based on a survey of 1.8 million wage earners. It
reported that “women still make only $0.79 for every dollar men make in 2019.” But the controlled pay
gap, “the amount that a woman earns for every dollar that a comparable man earns,” was a small fraction
of that. When comparing two people in the same profession, with the same seniority, working the same
number of hours, and so forth, women earn $0.98 for every dollar that a man earns.” (Evan Gerstmann in
Forbes)
Community Health Partners in Bozeman is 93% women. Is there no discrimination against men?
HRDC leadership is mostly female.
Girls are getting the “A”s in our schools.
Women are dominating law, medicine, education, and non-profits, and advancing rapidly in corporations
and government.
Just who in Bozeman is guilty of the resolution’s accusations of “erasure, genocide, and enslavement”? This
language is immoderate and untrue.
The essence of the resolution is that women and others are discriminated against in Bozeman. I disagree.
Vote no.
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