REALITY:  The size of the pay gap depends on how you measure it. The most common estimate is based on differences in annual earnings (currently about 23 cents difference per dollar). Another approach uses weekly earnings data (closer to an18 or 19 cents difference). Analyzing the weekly figures can be more precise in certain ways, like accounting for work hours that vary over the course of the year, and less accurate in others, like certain forms of compensation that don't get paid as weekly wages. No matter which number you start with, the differences in pay for women and men really add up. According to one analysis by the Department of Labor's Chief Economist, a typical 25-year-old woman working full time would have already earned $5,000 less over the course of her working career than a typical 25-year old man. If that earnings gap is not corrected, by age 65, she will have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars over her working lifetime. We also know that women earn less than men in every state and region of the country, and that once you factor in race, the pay gap for women of color is even larger.

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REALITY: Decades of research shows a gender gap in pay even after factors like the kind of work performed and qualifications (education and experience) are taken into account. These studies consistently conclude that discrimination is the best explanation of the remaining difference in pay. Economists generally attribute about 40% of the pay gap to discrimination - making about 60% explained by differences between workers or their jobs. However, even the "explained" differences between men and women might be more complicated. For example: If high school girls are discouraged from taking the math and science classes that lead to high-paying STEM jobs, shouldn't we in some way count that as a lost equal earnings opportunity? As one commentator put it recently, "I don't think that simply saying we have 9 cents of discrimination and then 14 cents of life choices is very satisfying." In other words, no matter how you slice the data, pay discrimination is a real and persistent problem that continues to shortchange American women and their families.

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REALITY: The pay gap for women with advanced degrees, corporate positions, and high paying, high skill jobs is just as real as the gap for workers overall. In a recent study of newly trained doctors, even after considering the effects of specialty, practice setting, work hours and other factors, the gender pay gap was nearly $17,000 in 2008. Catalyst reviewed 2011 government data showing a gender pay gap for women lawyers, and that data confirms that the gap exists for a range of professional and technical occupations. In fact, according to a study by the Institute for Women's Policy Research that used information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women earn less than men even within the same occupations. Despite differences in the types of jobs women and men typically perform, women earn less than men in male dominated occupations (such as managers, software developers and CEO's) and in those jobs commonly filled by women (like teachers, nurses and receptionists). In a recent review of 2010 Census data, Bloomberg found only one of 285 major occupations where women's median pay was higher than that of men - personal care and service workers. Because the data showed a particularly large pay gap in the financial sector, Bloomberg suggested that for women on Wall Street, shining shoes was the best way to earn more than the men.

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REALITY: Putting aside whether it's right to ask women (or men) to sacrifice financially in order to work and have a family, those kinds of choices aren't enough to explain away the gender pay gap. The gender gap in pay exists for women working full time. Taking time off for children also doesn't explain gaps at the start of a career. And although researchers have addressed various ways that work hours or schedule might or might not explain some portion of the wage gap, there may be a "motherhood penalty." This is based on nothing more than the expectation that mothers will work less. Researchers have found that merely the status of being a mother can lead to perceptions of lowered competence and commitment and lower salary offers.

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REALITY: It has been nearly fifty years since Congress mandated equal pay for women, and we still have a pay gap. There is evidence that our initial progress in closing the gap has slowed. We can't sit back and wait decades more. Just this year the Department of Labor launched an app challenge, working to give women the tools they need to know their worth. My office continues to increase its enforcement of requirements that federal contractors pay workers without discriminating on the basis of race or gender. And we are teaming up with other members of the National Equal Pay Task Force to ensure a coordinated federal response to equal pay enforcement. You can read more about our work on equal pay here.

Drum is completely correct in asserting that a section of the left set a threshold that was impossible to satisfy with a GOP holding filibuster power and later one house of congress.

Did he say anything incorrect?  Of course not.

Of course he did.  Beyond his bare recitation of facts, all of it was wrong.  Drum is correct that ACA and financial reform was passed, DADT was repealed, Osama was killed, and the auto industry was saved.  Congrats to Kevin.  From there, he's just wrong - many liberals who "aren't excited" enough for you are disappointed precisely because of Obama's promises and how they fail to measure up to what he himself promised:

Osama?  Yep, it's a good thing.  So what?
Dodd-Frank? - The one that doesn't address the basic "too-big-to-fail" issue?  BFD.  As SEC Commissioner Roberta Karmel (and many others have noted), it's incredibly weak.
DADT? - As if there was another option when 70-80%+ of people (including a majority of Republicans) wanted it ended.  It's a good thing.  BFD.
"Saving" the auto industry? - Do you mean the first bailout (where Bush approved the use of TARP funds) or the second bailout of GM and Chrysler after they filed for bankruptcy?  I agreed with both of them, but Drum credits Obama with "saving the auto industry".
ACA - "This is the President who delivered the security of affordable health care to every single American in every corner of this country after 90 years of trying".  The best one of all.  Affordable health care for every American? Hahahahahahahahaha .... You mean all we had to do to get affordable health care for every American was adopt the Republican plan of 1994?

Heh.

BTW - The real reason so many liberals aren't excited by Obama's candidacy isn't because they're holding him to some fairy tale standard in a fantasy world ... it's because they're holding Obama to his own standard that he created in the real world.  The one he created when he promised real healthcare reform - a government option ... public hearings ... no backroom deals ... affordable imported drugs.  Not to mention closing Guantanamo, repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, prevent drug companies from blocking generic prescription drugs, FISA reform, NAFTA renegotiation, comprehensive immigration reform, etc., etc., etc.

So while I understand and agree with what you are saying, it's not even close to the context in which AAA is trying to use it.

And of course the simple fact that roughly half the government is made up of the party that supposedly hates it.  That some how they think they aren't part of it, that it's all liberals doing and the only reason they bother, is to keep in under control, right after they start trillion dollar wars, fund the DoD to have more dollars then the rest of the entire planet combined, and enact a bunch of religiously based laws that invariably get tossed out in court.

The people, or many, many of them, pushed for decades for Prohibition after all..

BTW - Not tht I even care who approved it, but I have no idea (or evidence) of who did.  Of course, ...

As for the brouhaha over Jerusalem, WTF are we doing talking about some other country's geographical capital in our party platform??? It's insanity to think there is ANY merit to this a$$-kissing of AIPAC.