On Mother's Day, Ivanka Trump took the opportunity to tweet about the so-called wage gap between men and women.

But instead of recognizing that it doesn't actually exist, she blamed it on pregnancy and having children. Which actually is true, but doesn't speak to innate sexism in the free market. It speaks instead to the fact that those who spend less time in the workplace earn less money. She tweeted out a piece in the New York Times that admitted as much, quote, Today on Mother's Day, we must confront that motherhood is now a greater determinant of pay inequality than gender. The New York Times piece acknowledges, quote, When men and women finish school and start working, they're paid pretty much equally. But a gender pay gap soon appears, and it grows significantly over the next two decades. So what changes? The answer can be found by looking at when the pay gap widens most

sharply. It's the late 20s to mid-30s, according to two new studies. In other words, when many women

have children. Unmarried women without children continue to earn closer to what men do. Naturally,

the time suggests that public policy must be changed in order to force men to work less or push

employers to cut back hours or use the government to push paid

maternity leave, which is exactly what Ivanka Trump has been doing regularly and which President

Trump suggested on Mother's Day 2. Trump's Mother's Day message stated, quote, I am committed to

working with Congress to help mothers and fathers have paid family leave so that child care is accessible

and affordable and to invest in the comprehensive care that women receive at community health centers.

Through these reforms, and my 2018 presidential budget, we will enable access to the critical health care services women need.

Here's the silliest part of all of this.

If the real gap appears with marriage and children, why would we penalize single women in the marketplace by equalizing all pay regardless of female choice.

And why would we penalize the men in marriages who are helping to support their wives and kids

by cutting their pay simply to satisfy the feelings of women who may end up with the same

net household pay with or without regulation? Imagine for a second a husband earns 60 grand

a year and his wife used to earn 50 grand, but now after the first kid she works part-time

and makes 30 grand a year. Would it really benefit the family to push policies that would result in the husband being paid 45 grand and the wife 45 grand, just as she can spend more time at work? The legislation makes leftists feel good, and Ivanka's a leftist. It's sort of disquieting that she has so much power over daddy. I'm the Ben Shapiro show. Well, this is Ben Shapiro, and I'm Ben Shapiro. You know the deal. All right, so starting off the week on an

auspicious note, but before we get started with President Trump's weekend activities and all the

fun that is to be had there and the Democrats going completely over the top, which they are doing, they can't

stop themselves, and the media declaring a class one natural disaster, we must first say

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