NBC Uncritically Peddles New Twist to ‘Pay Gap’ Myth: Boys Get Bigger Allowances

NBC Uncritically Peddles New Twist to ‘Pay Gap’ Myth: Boys Get Bigger Allowances (NewsBusters)

A day after the liberal website Think Progress wrote a piece complaining “There’s Even A Gender Gap In Children’s Allowances” the folks over at NBC rushed to tie the issue to the “pay gap” between men and women.

On Thursday, April 24, Today show co-host Matt Lauer hyped “We all know about a pay gap that exists for adult men and women in the work world, but there are surprising new numbers this morning revealing that that gap actually begins during childhood with the allowances we pay our kids. In a new survey, 70% of boys say they get an allowance. That’s compared to just 60% of girls.”