By Selwyn Duke

The intersex wage-gap question asked at the last presidential debate
once again thrust the issue of equal pay for women into the headlines.
And since Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both vying for women — who
vote in greater numbers than men do — both campaigns have been saying
all the “right” things. Obama has touted his signing of the Lily
Ledbetter Act, while the Republicans have pointed out that not only does the liberal network MSNBC pay its female employees less, so does, ironically, the Obama administration (by the way, Obama did the same in his office when he was a senator). Yet the truth on women’s pay is something neither candidate dare say.

Women aren’t given less.

They earn less.

The reality is that far from being a result of discrimination, the
intersex wage gap — 72 cents on a man’s dollar, or 77 cents, or … well,
it depends on whom you listen to — is solely due to the sexes’ different
lifestyle and career choices. Columnist Carrie Lukas explained this in
2007, writing:

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