Since the 1970s, a revolution has taken place in the professions. In the United States today, more women graduate from college and earn advanced degrees than men. While relatively few women choose degrees in computer science, information sciences, and engineering, women are on track to access -- if not dominate -- many of the other high-income professions. A glance at U.S. Department of Education statistics below shows the startling transformation that has taken place, especially in the professions, during the past four decades. Especially noteworthy is the fact that today, nearly half of all MDs are awarded to women.
When professional women marry, they usually marry other professionals. Together, many of these achievement-oriented couples are earning -- or will earn during their lifetimes -- household incomes over $250,000, which the Obama Administration now classifies as "rich."
No wonder Obama supporters are blanketing the airwaves with campaign ads focusing on abortion, free mammogram referrals and free contraceptives. I would, too, if the goal was to distract from the President's onerous tax policies that penalize women trying to get ahead. President Obama's tax proposals may be advertised as targeting the "rich." But in reality, they disproportionately target middle-class women who heeded the messages of the last four decades, invested in themselves, and are staking a claim to high-income professions. President Obama is asking them to pay a steep price for making the right choices, especially for choosing to marry. That's not my idea of workplace fairness. It's a tax on hard work, professional achievement and the belief that "Yes, we can."
This is the real War on Women. This line of attack should be taken up by the Romney campaign and repeated over and over again until November 6th.
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