Gloria Steinem has been riding this horse too long without changing the saddle. What women is she around to say that there are none in positions of power and responsibility. School teachers, school principles, school superintendants, nurses, doctors, engineers, professors, university presidents, police officers, firefighters, etc. Certainly it is wrong that a women of comoparable seniority and experience should be paid less than a man for the same work; that is what should be targeted. What should not be used so regularly is the flawed statistic of general difference in wages. Women traditionally have been attracted to work that pays less than the work to which men have traditionally been attracted. That is the main reason for the disparity; not because they are women. Secretaries earn less than the professionals they serve and men more often enter those professions. Shop clerks earn less than construction workers. There are endless examples. I doubt there will ever be statistical equality because there are real physical and psychological differences that cause men and women to be attracted to different kinds of work. Women are, quite expectedly, inching their way up. That will continue as they move into more demanding fields of work and as the ratio of college educated women to men continues to increase. We all should strive to eliminate artificial inequality based on sex, but we should also understand better the statistics that advocates like Steinem often use to skew the discussion.