Necessary Roughness

A Washington Times Commentary highlights a Reuters report that there may actually be a gender gap among U.S. corporate directors that favors females.

A key quote from the commentary:

Candidates like Sen. Hillary Clinton seek the “women’s vote” by continuing to promote the now discredited myths that women are yet again victimized in pay and education. What America needs, however, are credible candidates who can face empirical research reality and take action that is fair both to males and females.

Agreed! But then he wraps up:

If candidates want the “male vote” — as well as the votes of females who wish to have men intimately involved in their lives — they will ignore P.C. ideology, face squarely empirical research reality, and propose solutions favoring gender equality. (emphasis mine)

Solutions? Pay gaps are not problems. They might be market ineffiencies at worst, but ineffiencies are merely opportunities for someone to make money. Maybe those women were simply better salary negotiators. Maybe they did their jobs better. The only solution here is equal opportunity under the law, rather that equal salaries or outcomes.