Thomas Sowell - Gender Bias and Income Disparity: A Myth?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/21/Uncommon_Knowledge_Thomas_Sowell

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell argues that economic differences between working men and women are not generally due to employer discrimination, as is widely alleged.

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Peter Robinson speaks with Thomas Sowell about his new book Economic Facts and Fallacies in which Sowell exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues.

Sowell takes on the conventional thinking on a wide swath of America's economic life, from male-female economic differences to income stagnation, executive pay, and social mobility to economics of higher education. In all cases he demonstrates how economics relates to the social issues that deeply affect our country - Hoover Institution

Thomas Sowell is an American economist, political writer, and commentator. He is currently a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In 1990, he won the Francis Boyer Award, presented by the American Enterprise Institute. In 2002 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for prolific scholarship melding history, economics, and political science.

Peter M. Robinson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's television program, Uncommon Knowledge.

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[hujo9000]

@MRrhythmsNflows You believe that based on your feminist indoctrination not because of evidence. "Men are oppressors, women are oppressed" these are not facts but a feminist mantra. So good luck with blind faith. Feminism has never been more powerful or so entrenched in our government it divides people creates hate and wastes taxes. When people like sowell begin to question, it lessens their power, its just time they got out of power.

[Badtreewater]

Liberals need the populace to feel Victimized, because if they weren't, then they'd have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Why take control of your own life and it's outcome, when you can just blame your short comings on your skin color, sexuality, or gender.

[hapz3000]

@thomaserossi well you as a conservative dont believe in freedom because you say all liberal complaints deserve to be dictated by conservative policy with no medium no gray area everything is egotistically black and white. obama is not a good president but when he called to gather a grey area conservatives bickered and pointed fingers and became the party of no they will accept nothing but their own ideology for the poor they are no better than liberal politicians

[thomaserossi]

@hapz3000 - Wrong. Liberal complaints create Liberal policies.

[MrLecam21]

1) It is private choice on how you want to redistribute the charges regarding the baby. Thus no state intervention (or only in order to equalize the choice set between men and women).

2) Men and women have different roles. It also impacts the psychology of the baby!! This is not only a question for an economist but for a psychologist also. 

[erik4727]

watch?v=0yCAlSVq_GY

[hapz3000]

@Badtreewater no liberals complain of being victimized not expecting anything in return...liberal complaints and liberal policy are 2 different things..conservatives and totalitarians really just want to oppress without question. if they have a problem with policy they should fight the policy and stop training each other to smite average people and spread hatred

[ws81086n]

Modern feminism is an utter disgrace to the ideal of free citizenship

[mgj51chapman]

@hujo9000 I could not agree with you more - and I am a woman....

[utlongyhorn]

@Badtreewater shut up

[happinesson]

we are practicing the equal rights of both gender! no limitation , no boundaries..Let us be ourselves