Sorry, Hillary, but it looks like women don’t need your help to make as much money as the boys do.
According to recent figures released by the U.C. Census Bureau, the number of women making more money than their husbands is on the rise.
In addition to an increase in women making more money than men, husbands saw a decrease in instances where the husband earned more — from 38 to 35 percent.
Married couples where the husband earned at least $30,000 more than the wife decreased from 38 to 35 percent. Conversely, husbands and wives whose earnings were within $4,999 of each other grew slightly from 24 percent in 2000 to 25 percent in 2015.
Great news for women, not-so-great for the left who have champion an agenda of more government regulation and legislation to combat the so-called gender wage gap and workplace gender discrimination.
These numbers make it look like the pendulum is swinging in the favor of women, but actually, the earning are just getting closer together, as the same report noted the percentage of husbands and wives whose earnings were within $4,999 of each other grew from 24 to 25 percent.
“What these numbers do seem to make clear to me is that women, by and large, aren’t hampered by gender discrimination. Bosses don’t appear to be capping their pay or paying them less than men because they are women,” reflected Charlotte Hays of the Independent Women’s Forum.
