My better half makes more than me

Today is Feminista designated Equal Pay Day. According to the Feminista, a woman has had to work all of last year and the first four months of this year to equal a man's pay for 2005. The problem with the feminista theory is that they're comparing the compensation for all men to all women. As the American Enterprise Institute's Diane Furchtgott-Roth says, "Measuring so-called discrimination by comparing women’s wages to the median wage is like saying there’s something wrong with oranges because they are smaller than grapefruits." What the Feminista don't bother to mention is that women, on average, work fewer hours per week, have less work experience and work at different -- often less demanding and less dangerous -- jobs than men. When the pay for workers of the same age, education, and experience is included, the gap is nearly non existent. Economist June O'Neil states, "When earnings comparisons are restricted to men and women more similar in their experience and life situations, the measured earnings differentials are typically quite small." The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth has shown that for workers aged 27 to 33 who have never had a child, women's wages are 98 percent of men's. Warren Farrell, Ph.D., author of "Why Men Earn More", points out: "Women who have never been married and never had children earn 117 percent of their male counterparts. Ironically, Farrell is a former board member of the National Organization for Women’s New York chapter. When he started the book he was trying to prove there actually was a wage gap. However, the further he researched the issue he found it wasn't true. The most telling statistic on this Feminista day is that men account for 92 percent of all job-related deaths even though they are only 54 percent of the work force.