Media discrimination begets biased content.

The mainstream media often enlists women to proclaim that the wage gap is either the fault of feminists (Kate O'Beirne's National Review article "59 Cents, and Other Rot--A took at some feminist myths" is typical of headlines in conservative magazines and major corporate news outlets alike), or something women bring on themselves. The New York Times regularly publishes such widely debunked yet influential stories as Lisa Belkin's "The Opt-Out Revolution," which posited that women have little interest in the responsibility or stress of working life, and Louise Story's "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood," which declared that female college students plan …