August 26: Women's Equality Day

President Obama proclaimed August 26 as Women's Equality Day, then promptly repeated radical feminism's favorite phony 'fact': "On average, women are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men." Economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth makes mincemeat of this false assertion (and others) in The Myth of Women as Economic Victims.

...if a Martian were to come down and see there were two groups of people—men and women—and one of the groups earned 58% of all Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, more than half of all PhD degrees, an equal number of medical degrees and legal degrees, had a longer life expectancy by about 5 years, had a lower unemployment rate, and fewer of this group were in jail and fewer were on drugs, they would say, oh, this must be the favored group of people.

And if that Martian then was told it is the favored group that is "discriminated against" and it is the favored group that the President wants to give affirmative action to, the Martian would just be shocked because by many, many metrics women are doing better than men.