Thanks, Christina Hoff Sommers, But Most of Us Still Make Less than the Men Around Us.
We just about spat out our feminist Wheaties this morning, reading Christina Hoff Sommers takedown of the Paycheck Fairness Act on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times.
A scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Hoff Sommers argues that Paycheck Fairness—which would make it easier for women to file class-action suits against employers they accuse of wage discrimination, and require companies to be more cognizant of their pay practices—overlooks “mountains of research” showing that sexism plays “little role” in wage discrimination at work.
You all know we’ve got studies piled up on our cubicles the size of Mount Everest—if we want to use the mountain cliche—so here’s our humble rebuttal.
