Stephen ‘Women Choose Lower-Paying Professions’ Miller To Reportedly Tackle Women’s Issues For White House

“Women Already Have Equal Rights in This Country,” the Senior Trump Adviser Wrote

Stephen Miller, the White House senior adviser known for his insistence that the president’s power “will not be questioned” and for his role in shaping the Trump administration’s immigration policy, will reportedly now also work with Ivanka Trump on women’s issues.

The addition to Miller’s portfolio, Politico reported, follows the senior adviser’s decision to distance himself from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and gain fervor from Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Citing seven White House officials, the report advised that Miller aims to do so by working with Kushner’s wife and Trump’s daughter Ivanka on “family leave, child care and women’s issues.”

While Stephen Miller’s current stance on women’s issues is unknown, the Huffington Post located “Sorry Feminists,” a 2005 column written by Miller, then a junior at Duke University.  

“Women already have equal rights in this country,” Miller wrote, advising that women “love to proclaim” that they make less than men in the workforce. “They enjoy all the same protections and liberties as men. What feminists demand now is equal results. Case in point: correcting the pay gap.”

Miller insisted in the column that “women also choose lower-paying professions,” citing that “educated women are far more likely than educated men to go into service fields such as teaching and social working” rather than others that “don’t pay nearly as well as careers in business.”

He further discussed the sacrifices of men – namely, “plumbing toilets, cleaning up sewers [and] picking up garbage.” According to Miller, “men do the lion’s share of the hazardous work.”

The senior adviser to Donald Trump further insisted that women were less likely to ask for raises than men, that they entered the work force more recently and are therefore “less credentialed,” and that women may even have the audacity to “take off several years after having a child and so on.”

He called the effort to equalize pay and close the wage gap a “grave concern,” as any potential legislation to do so would make it possible for “any employee who doesn’t get a raise and happens to be a woman to bring her boss into court.” Women don’t realize, he said, that bosses simply want to “run a successful business.”

He cautions women that closing the pay gap could force them to give up their meaningful careers or force them to work longer hours—thus not allowing them to spend time with their families. They would have to “[give] up the joy of being home during [their] child’s first years of life,” he lamented.

Miller insisted in the column that he isn’t a chauvinist—rather, he is chivalrous. “The truth is,” he wrote, “even in modern-day America, there is a place for gender roles.”

The American Association of University Women (AAUW), whose mission is “advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research,”  found in their 2017 “Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap” report that women are expected to reach pay equity with men in the year 2059. 

 

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