Some women mellow out, others like Mrs. Clinton and ex-bunny, Gloria Steinem just get even nastier. from Mary Milliken, Reuters [1]:
At 76, Steinem laments elusive equality for women
As she turns 76 next week, the woman who walked the front lines of American feminism in the 1960s and 1970s — often in a miniskirt, big glasses and buttons with colorful expletives — celebrates her good health and “huge, huge leaps forward.”
But Steinem has plenty of bones to pick with government and society when it comes to women’s rights.
American women workers still earn only 70 cents to men’s $1, women are barred from combat, women’s health care premiums are higher and raising children is not counted as productive work, she says.
As to the seventy cents on the dollar myth, women’s is different than men’s, because women make different choices. When the last time you called a plumber in the middle of the night and a woman responded? Men and women make different choices. Difference choices leads to different outcomes. Example the Bureau of Labor Statistics listing of job related fatalities for the year 2008 [2]:
Men……………………………………………………………… 4,703
Women…………………………………………………………… 368
That is over twelve men killed on the job for every women. Put those statistics in your tail and chew on it honey.
Women pay more in health care premium than men, because they use more. Also young male drivers payer higher auto insurance premiums, because they tend to drive worse than the women. Come back when you can find a real beef.