Chamber Of Commerce Backs Off From Women's "Fetish For Money"
LatestDespite generally being wrong about many things, a top official at the U.S. Chamber Of Commerce is rightfully apologizing for a blog post on their site accusing people concerned about pay inequality of having a “fetish for money.”
In case you missed that particular stroke of genius, Brad Peck had taken the anniversary of women’s suffrage as an opportunity to tell women that the answer to the pay gap was “choosing the right place to work and choosing the right partner at home.” He also quoted a libertarian blogger saying that progressive efforts around the wage gap showed a “fetish for money” that did not take into account other valuable things, such as the chance to be told, in the absence of fact, that your individual choices are to blame for you being paid less for the same job.
Now, David Chavern, the COO of the Chamber of Commerce (which, it is easy to forget, is a private, nongovernmental agency and a lobby) has rebutted it with some energy: