The Pay Gap Trap

August, 2001

I Gave one of my friends the nickname RadFem because she's never heard a radical feminist argument she hasn't liked--which means that on issues of sexual politics, she will always parrot the party line (men are bad, women are good, end of story). As you might expect, RadFem and I have a few differences of opinion, but we remain semicongenial acquaintances and get together on occasion for lunch.The last time that we met, RadFem was mired in what I call the Pay Gap Trap, convinced that men earn mo...