The Incomplete Cynic

One of the articles in today’s Daily Brief from HuffPo carried this blurb:

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Empowering America’s Women

When women earn more, families are stronger and children have better access to quality health care and education. We must close the chronic wage gap that shortchanges women.

She’s wrong, and on both ends.

The most clearly obvious problem is that money doesn’t make families stronger, no matter who’s earning it. Some people are convinced that money can solve almost everything, and what can’t be solved with money can be solved with education. It’s simply a fantasy; no amount of money will strengthen a family.

And if you want kids to have access to quality health care and education, it’s not about women earning more, it’s about parents earning more. Childless women earning more doesn’t do a damn thing for kids access to these things, and when fathers earn more (particularly single fathers) their kids get access to better things, too.