One Way of Redefining Economic Insecurity Is to Explain It Away As the Result of "Sexism" in the Workplace

One important way of redefining economic insecurity is to explain it away as the result of "sexism" in the workplace. Here it is asserted that women's economic insecurity is caused by discrimination on account of their sex, without which they would be better off than they are. Sometimes this takes the form of the supposition that women make less than men for the same work. This charge is made despite the fact that this would make organizations subject to expensive lawsuits, and despite the fact that if women would do the equivalent work more cheaply. it would be hugely profitable for them to replace the men with women. Not surprisingly specific examples of such discrimination are rarely cited.

--Howard S. Schwartz, The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003), 67.