ASHE SCHOW: Where are the fact checkers for Clinton’s pay gap claims?

We were only a minute or so into the debate before Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton uttered her first fabrication by implying we don’t already guarantee equal pay for women.

“…guaranteeing, finally, equal pay for women’s work,” Clinton said, in response to the first question about why her policies would be good for the economy.

Well, Clinton, equal pay is already guaranteed in the Equal Pay Act of 1963.

Clinton’s implication that women aren’t paid the same as men is false. On average, women earn less than men not because of discrimination, but because of the different choices men and women make in their careers.

Women and men choose different majors and different careers, for starters. Nine of the 10 lowest-paying majors are dominated by women, while nine of the 10 highest-paying majors are dominated by men. Women also tend to leave the work force after having children, while men end up working harder. Women also work fewer hours than men.

I’m so old I can remember when feminists denied that there was any such thing as “women’s work.”