Kentucky Commission on Women Unhappy With Employment Opportunities in State

What it really boils down to, Cyann Burton says, is that women in Kentucky go to college to be nurses and men to be doctors.

Burton, 30, who lives in Adair County and works in Taylor County, is one of more than 300 people from 55 counties who spent the last year studying the well-being of Kentucky's women.

Democrats have run the KY state government since 1971 -- without interruption.

And they hope all this hand-wringing and harping will help move more women to support their next candidate for Governor. Yeah, right!

"Can you believe there's only one female member of the U.S. Congress?" she said. "There's just four women in the state senate and 11 in the House of Representatives ... and no women of color."

Well, if the Dems have been running the state for 30 years, I guess we've established that the Dems are both sexist ... and racist!

The usual feminist whine about "less pay for women" is specious reasoning at best.

Let's see...if I were a business owner and I could hire men to work for $10/hour, or women to work for $9/hour, which would I choose?

Of course, I'd hire women. In fact, everyone would if they could pay less wages or salary.

So where does the perceived pay differential originate?

First, women often enter a career field for a limited time; either before or after raising children. If a woman does juggle family and career, she usually will curtail her job marketability in favor of family needs. Maybe she will work flex-time, or stay in a lower-paying job to avoid business trips or relocation.

Second, women don't generally see their job, their ability to earn money, as defining them. You might say they're not as ambitious as men, on the average.

Third, women tend to interact in a group, not as a top-down hierarchy. That works for many situations, but not for most of the business world. Men have less problem with command structure.

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