Democrats’ campaign of distortion shouldn’t be rewarded

Article here. Excerpt:

'If that’s not enough, there is the phony war on women based on misleading statistics, which ignore that the infamous “77 cents on the dollar” claim about women’s wage gap is not the result of a “war on women.” Kessler explained (“Weekly wages is more of an apples-to-apples comparison, but as mentioned, it does not include as many income categories, The gap is even smaller when you look at hourly wages — it is 86 cents vs. 100 . . . but then not every wage earner is paid on an hourly basis, so that statistic excludes salaried workers. But, under this metric for people with a college degree, there is virtually no pay gap at all.”)

To be specific, “The [Bureau of Labor Standards] reports that single women who have never married earned 96% of men’s earnings in 2012,” two conservative economists relate. (The Post’s Wonkblog comes up with 91 percent. ) Job selection, risk taking (“Nearly all the most dangerous occupations, such as loggers or iron workers, are majority male and 92% of work-related deaths in 2012 were to men. Dangerous jobs tend to pay higher salaries to attract workers”), the choice to work part-time and factors other than discrimination explain the differences:
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The recognition that wage inequality is driven by women’s choices has led to the entire “lean in” campaign, which would be a cruel hoax if women’s choices didn’t matter and the system was inherently biased against women with the same hours, education and career choices as men. But in the political realm the left’s thirst for sowing resentment and convincing women they are victims of fellow Americans is unquenchable.'