Recently, the Huffington Post published a piece about a New Hampshire state Rep., Will Infantine (R), who believes that the gender gap between women and men's paychecks stems from the fact that women are "lazier" than men. While debating the Paycheck Equity Act in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Infantine gave a speech that may have gotten a little too heated. He claimed men are "more motivated by money" and "don't mind working nights and weekends" or "overtime, or outdoors in the elements", and mens' jobs are "more [sic] riskier". Women have a long history of working nights and weekends and "overtime", maybe not for a paycheck, and they are definitely motivated by money!
This parallels the research that I've been doing regarding my Junior Theme paper about women's rights and marriage. I've found that the cause of this gap between paychecks stems from the fact that men believe women are less capable of working at the high paying jobs like men can. What makes them unequal? I'd like to know. I wonder what the two women senators in New Hampshire and the woman governor think about his comments?
These types of comments are unlikely to draw positive attention from other politicians that are on his side of the debate. Infantine's party peers are likely to cringe at his comments, and this will probably even backfire on him in his future debates.
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