The President proclaims Equal Pay Day “to recognize the full value of women’s skills and…acknowledge the injustice of wage discrimination.”
Rupert Murdoch isn’t buying it, as the Wall Street Journal insists “There Is No Male-Female Wage Gap” and that the day is “dedicated to manufactured feminist grievances.”
That tortured argument has all the logic of the claim that tax cuts for the richest Americans are good for the economy but, as I write this, my eyes light on a framed scroll on the wall for efforts to pass the “Equal Rights Amendment” to the Constitution in 1979.
It failed, of course, and women’s equality today is glibly asserted by citing numbers in the President’s Cabinet and on the Supreme Court. But as always, political sound-bites cover up the reality of people’s lives.
From years of editing women’s magazines and co-writing a book on divorce, a different picture emerges, particularly among millions of single mothers struggling to survive on what the legal system provides for them.
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