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The Real Story in the AAUW’s Wage-Gap Study

“From this heading, it’s clear that they want the media and readers to assume that the study found that two recent graduates—who sat next to each other during college, completing the same coursework, earning the same GPA and major, who then moved to the same city and were hired by the same firm for the same position—typically receive radically different compensation packages based on their sex, with the female grad receiving just 82 percent of her male colleague’s salary.” Continue reading

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A brief note on gender discrimination in health insurance costs

“Women, in general, pay lower auto insurance premiums. Women shouldn’t have to subsidize the risky driving behaviors of men, and men shouldn’t have to subsidize the health care decisions of women.” Continue reading

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Two takes on Obamacare’s discrimination against men

President Obama wants to spread the health around — but only to women. Improving the health only of the healthier, longer-living group — women — is like improving the wages only of the higher-earning group — men. What would women say about the latter? The same thing men should say about the former. Continue reading

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Yet Another Report on the Status of Women

By Carrie L. Lukas | Independent Women’s Forum | March 1, 2011 The White House is trumpeting its newly released report on “Women in America” as “the first comprehensive federal report on women since 1963,” though much of it seems a reiteration … Continue reading

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