the war on women is alive and well.s >> all those attempts to curtai> women's rights in area afterer area. >> it's not fair apparently, republicans are at war with women. because sexist men pay women less. >> it kills mewo to not get paid as much. >> that is wrong. in 2014, it's an embarrassment. >> as usual, government will fix it. >> now is the time for congress to step up and pass the fairness act. >> that's only fair because men and women are the same. >> there is no differencere between girls and boys.

>> if that's true, why do we play with different toys? >> we gave them each trucks and she wouldn't play with the truck. and he would. >> if men and women are equal,jh why, when disaster hits doors they say this? >> i will require only women anc children. >> why do we assume to have different attitudes about sex? >> there are more men lookingex for sex than women. >> why, until obamacare made it he will legal, did health insurance companies charge women more?, >> finally being a woman is no longer preexisting medical condition. >> the war on women. truth and lies.s that's our show tonight. democratic party leaders have decided that the way to win votes this november is to shouto loudly that republicans wage war on women. politico reports that this election season democrats willil make the war on women bigger,

broader and more central to white house and democratic messaging. this is a proven persuasivepr argument. others in the liberal media are on board. here is steven colbert plague the role of an antiwoman conservative. >> eva braun, mrs. butterworth, all women! all equally special! >> more seriously, what is this republican war on women? what do republicans want to do to women?mocr democrats point to cruderu language used by somere republicans. rush limbaugh called an have a fluke a slut. todd aiken used the phrase, if it's legitimate rape if asked if abortion should be legal in cases o beyond language, democrats say d anyone who wants to restrict abortion is antiwoman.'t w apparently you're also antiwomaa if you're skeptical about government fixing the pay gap.

in his state of the union address, president obama said -- >> they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. women deserve equal pay forns equal work. >> we'll get o that pay gap later in the show.e' finally, the democrats are proud that they have ended sex discrimination in health insurance. >> no woman can ever bioe chargd more just because she's a woman. >> that sounds fair.sh i would think it would sound good to my guests since you're boast women. in fact, this is an all womanisi show except for me. ending insurance priceri discrimination does sound good to former president of women's media center, jehmu green but conservative heather hug joins says it's full of lies. what do you mean? >> there is no. war on women, except maybe if you want to call obamacare a war on women. they're losing theirir doctors. they're losing their access. their choices are being

constrained. >> come on. it's not just women who embracee the fact that they are no longer being charged more.is t it's the men in their life also. women turn out in much larger numbers for democrats 'causerats they look at the two parties and they say, who is representing my interests and it's not the party that wants to put a politician in between the conversations that you have with the man inn y your life, the doctor in your life, and the god in your life.a and that's what republicans are doing across -- >> the government isov largely interested in replacing the men in your life with the governmeni in your life. and that has been reallyun unfortunate because thatra constrains your choices further. >> let's do one issue at a time. reproductive rights.s. how do the republicans attack women? >> if you look at various piece of legislation, i think in the past year we have something like over 1,000 bills introduced across the country to try to curtail a woman's reproductive

rights. >> antes abortion? >> anti-abortion. they couch it in terms of we want to do a 20-week abortion ban. but really it's about trying too close as many clinics in thet state. and this is going across the, th country where we have seen rights pulled back -- >> roughly the same number ofrto women are anti-abortion as men.e >> why should we allow the>> government into the conversation, into the decisionn we make with our doctor?to then when you look at the insurance -- >> because they believe it's's murder. >> in birth control, you have people up in arms because insurance companies will covertl birth control but since the day viagra came out, insurance plans haveve been covering it. >> big difference. some cover it and you can buy it or not. but obamacare requires me to pay for birth control. >> birth control in and of itself is health care. >> no.

>> it's 12 bucks a month at-m wal-mart. government has to pay ford this? >> the men in their lives are able to plan when they want o have -- >> when they want to haveel aab. baby. >> heather, hang on. let me ask, why is it theov government that has to pay? why can't -- >> it's not the -- >> jehmu, democrats complainmu when republicans use coarse language in talking about women. but you don't complain about bill maher. he said this about sarah palin. >> the inglorious braggart, a wo whiner, a professional victim, a scold, a know it all a chiselerk a bully who sells patriotism like a pimp. >> he also called palin andnd congresswoman michelle bachman crazy people. >> trust me. it's not because they have breasts. it's because they are boobs. >> if a republican saidd something like>> that... . >> you're absolutely right. >> that is repulsive. there are a lot of fair weather

feminists who have not calledi him out on that. we need to defend sarah palin in the same way that we defend hillary clinton. d and for this simple reason -- well, there are many reasons. unless we defend and address our own liberal message, itmore wome political process, from running for office so that we actuallyfo have equal representation whichr will lead to equal pay and which will lead to leaving politicians out of our doctors -- >> beyonce is one of the leading voices on the shriver report. she's married to jay-z who goes around making millions of dollars because he calls women m bitches whores. >> maybe they are sexist, when they held a meeting on contraception, all the witnessea they picked seemed to be male. democratic congresswoman carolyn maloney said this. >> where are the women? when i look at this panel, i don't see one single woman.on >> panel on contraception?

>> this was in 2012. it wasn't showed to be aable on contraception. it was supposed to be onon religious liberty and it was the first of a series of panels. optically it was unbelievabl stupid republicans are dumb about the visuals and how they will be manipulated. but they thought it was a conversation about religious liberty. they did not think that it was not supposed to be aboutrr contraception in this particular hearing. it was used as a staged opportunity to say we have a war on women. the war on women had beenf predetermined to be a useful campaign strategy. there is a group that nancyelos pelosi runs weekly and they havy looked at obama's sinking numbers at the beginning off 25012 and said -- 2012 and saido if we're going to make hay, we need to have a meeting. what they came up with was war on women. that's why you saw issue after issue being praised -- >> let's go on to the next topic. jehmu, i assume you're happy that it's no longer legal for a health insurance company to discriminate against you women

by charging you more than theyha charge men.men, and president obama likes to l point that out. >> you can't be charged more ifg you're a woman. those days are over. >> yes, of course i'm extremely happy. and as i said before, as are the men in the women's lives. now, i come from a family and iy think many people do -- my mom put our health care before hers. she put my dad's health care before hers. i think there are many women -- we're not going to the doctor more. >> yes, you are. >> hold on here. the cdc says even excludingxc pregnancy visits, women were 33% more likely to visit a doctor. >> you want to d live in a couny where you charge women more than men? is that the type of country youo want? >> yes. when weather it comes toto insurance. >> wow. >> that's not the country i think that most families and especially again, the men who support the women in their lives

want to -- >> you and i should pay the same car insurance rate and life insurance rate? >> i don't know if you're as good of a driver as i am, john. >> they charge me much more 'cause men on average have more accidents. and you get to live seven years longer, so you pay less for life insurance. >> the gap is coming down, whicm is concerning. >> the crisis c exists as a mechanism of flecting a certain reality. how much supply, how muchin demand, how much need, how much expense. it's just as when you go to work for somebody, what you get paid is a function of whether you add more value than it costs them ts hire you. s similarly with insurance, it'snc what you're going to cost the insurance company more or less, statistically speaking. and there is great debate on this. >> when a woman gets pregnant and needs to go to the doctor, she did that all by herself. >> no. we're saying that a woman tendse to use a doctor more. but we also know that a woman is paying less for her car insurance and she's paying less

for her life insurance and she pays less for -- maybe according to you, we should be paying more car insurance than -- and saync young men don't have to pay nearly as much as they do ander even older men don't need to pay as much. >> it has nothing to do with it -- >> it has everything to do with it. >> car insurance isn't a similai issue? >> it has nothing to do with the pursuit of life, liberty and tha pursuit of hasn'tness. >> jehmu is willing to stick men with additional cost and not have parody there, but she wants men and children to pay for the cost of older people -- >> i thought your organizationnd represented women, but i'm glad you're the spokesperson for why men are being so screwed by ourw health insurance. >> no. what screws it up is third partp payers. it is being required too pay for things that you don't want and it is being covered in a way that gives you no responsibilits for your own -- >> it's in the best interest of

our society that when women aree healthy, we have access tos affordable health care. >> i agree. >> to car insurance and life insurance, too? >> the men --t >> we don't agree on any of that. >> this is one of the most well-supported parts of the affordable care act. >> that's because people who don't understand insurance are supporting it. >> when the titanic went down, there was a moment where they said, women and children first. is that sexist? >> yes.hi >> children -- >> there is sexism way throughout our society. i'm also from texas and i will sit here and admit i like a doot to be opened for me. and i hope that's okay. >> thank you, jehmu. thankan you, heather. keep this conversation going ont facebook, use that #waronwomen. let people know what you think. coming up,e the differenceg between the sexes. what exactly are the differences? how real are they? but next, the pay gap. women earn 77 cents for every

buck men earn doing the same job. that seems very wrong. ♪ ♪

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she works hard for her money. you better treat her right. seems fair. in this year's state of themo bn union, president obama said it was terriblede for every dollara man makes, women make only 77 cents. >> give every woman the opportunity she deserves because i believe whenen women succeed, america succeeds. >> applause from both parties. there is john boehner applauding. he doesn't stand up like joe biden. everyone seems to agree. it's a crime that women earn less than men and government must do something. amy holmes is a student of s economics. you must agree that government needs to fix this wage gap.gap. >> indeed, john. i d don't. and as a matter of fact, that 70 cents number is in and of itself misleading. if you look at the number and you control for an apples to apples comparison, harvard economist claudia and othersha found that wage gap shrinks

tremendously. >> and what upset me is the president knows this and even his own department of labor says after controlling for occupation, experience, other choices, women earn 95% as muchh as men do. >> correct. so the reason why 70 cents is incorrect, that it's false, is it's comparing all full-timere women to all full-time men,e regardless of occupation, and even the term, full time, is m misleading. to a 35-hourers workweek and as it turns out, men work longer hours than women and so they tend to chalk up aa. higher wage. >> my understanding is that we n men tend to work not just longer hours. be more willing to move for ain job, be willing to go to unsafe places. i assume you womenss are smarte, that we have less balanced lives. we're willing to give everything up for ambition at work. >> we are different. w i looked at one study of

university of chicago mda's. looked at over 2,000 people whou graduated from the university of chicago, very elite university with theiriv mba's from 1990 to. 2006. and what they found was i tn the beginning of these graduates' careers, their wages were very close. there was only a minimalat difference. where you saw that wage gap w widen up was over time. women were far more likely to take time out of the work force to have career pauses and to work shorter hours. i found this extraordinary. during that time, only 10% of male university of chicago mba's took six months or more out of o the work force. when it came to women, 40% of women took six months or more off. that has big ramifications when it comes to salary.ff >> men are four times as likelyg to ask for a raise than women. >> they are. men are eight times more likely to negotiate their salary than 8 women. if you negotiate your salary, you can raise your salary by 7%. so imagine that time, eight

times more men willing to raisee their salary by 7% just walking in the door. e >> not something the governmentm can fix. >> certainly not. >> at the top, in 147 of 150 of the biggest u.s. cities, full time salaries of young women are 8% higher than men. >> that sort of surprises me because it's a statistic that a you don't know. just perhaps speculate, if you look at cities, that tends to be a knowledge economy. and now let's look at education. nearly 60% of all bachelors now are awarded to women. they're earning more -- a majority of masters degrees --as >> the government has to helpou them! >> you would think if you're g concerned about the gender gap, you would be kicking women out to get more men in. >> the majors that men and womer choose. the high pay college majors are petroleum engineering, mathematics, computer science, mechanical engineering, mining, mineral engineering. these are 90% male.

87% male.7% 67% male. >> right. >> the low pay major, early chidehood education, overwhelmingly female. human services, social work, communications disorders. these are the peopleor who helpe addressed my stuttering. i'mng thankful for them. but they pay less.y so it shouldn't be a surpriseot that there is a difference. >> a lot of feminists would look at that list of majors and say, well the, the reason for that is men are earn couraged as boys to play with trucks and legos and s girls are given dolls and it's sexism. but when youch get to college, p get o pick your own major. i chose economics. maybe i would have liked a little art history. >> we went to the same college. >> indeed we did. >> when i went, you wouldn't have beenn allowed in because no women were allowed. >> aren't you glad that's changed? must have been very lonely for you. >> it was lonely. i didn't like it. but the culture changed. we don't need government to doed these things.

>> no, we don't.ernm we didn't need government to enlist young women to go to college. they made that choice themselves. as it mentioned, they're nowge outnumbering men in college. >> thank you. coming up, in school, do girlsne need special protection? >> the boys, like they just sayo whatud they think and if it's wrong, they don't care. >> but next, a woman argues it'a feminists who waged a war on o women. >> we now have a split mating market. o >> one pointer. >> one corner where people are pursuing marriage. >> more women looking to marry than men.

what if there is a real war on women and it's led by feminists? feminists who criticize women for being full time moms. when mitt romney ran for president, a democratic strategist said this about annor

romney. >> his wife isis actually never worked a day in her life.st s she's never really dealt with the kind of economic issues that a majority of the women in h ths country are facing.ajor >> now, she was rich, but she did raise five kids and she does significant charity work all ra despite having multiple sclerosis.but the attitude of some feminists s is the only fulfilling role is full time work and pursuing sex like men often do. that's the real war on women, says newspaper columnist. really? >> the sex issue is one that sort of goes under the radar a lot. as you know, in college these days, gender is a social construct. there are no differences between men and women and so women should pursue sex, casual sex early and often, just like men do. and their attitudes about it c should base the same. >> what's wrong with that? that freed women up and when the sexual revolution started, whenr

i was a young man, i thought that was a great idea. >> right. you'reen a man. no.a obviously i think that theou a sexual revolution and what really propelled it, the burst controll pill, had enormous benefits for women. we can have sex now without getting pregnant. however, it turns out what women are looking for in a s relationship is just not whatgnn men are looking for. most studies show that when women are look for relationships, they want commitment. they want men toha woo them, if you will. they are looking for -- they consider -- >> more of the casual. >> they find sex more fulfilling inside of a committed relationship. >> this clip from a texas think tank called the economics of sex illustrates it. >> how much does sex cost forr men? >> it might cost them nothing but a few drinks andbut compliments. or a month of dates andd respectful attention. or all the way up to a lifetime promise to share all of his affections, wealth and earnings with her exclusively.

>> in the past, it really wasn't a patriarchy that policed women's relational interests. it was women.t it has all but vanished. >> and you want to go back to before the sexual revolution? >> i think what i would like to point out is that there are trade-offs. it used to be that before the>> sexual revolution, men actually had to exhibit some kind of commitment before they got sex a out of a woman. what has happened is the price of sex has been driven down. >> so women should demand more gifts and engagement rings? >> i don't think gifts is the point. i think commitment is the point. women who have casual sex, women who start having sex very early in their teens, for instance, actually have huge emotional scars from that. they're more likely to be depressed. if nem nighses were really concerned about women's happiness, they would think more seriously about the issue of trying to portray casual sex as something that we should all embrace and that we all have the

same interest in. ultimately, women in the people in society who saidd look,te we need to have commitment in order for this whole civilization s thing to work out. now the bottom line is you havea women who not only are encouraged to have casual sex, if you read the stories about what goes on on college campuses, a lot of them have ton get drunk in order tolite participate in casual sex. they think it's a bad idea. it's like oh, i better get drunk before i go sky diving because i know it's a bad idea, but it will be better if i'm just notor aware of the wholee thing. >> you say women should have anw opec of sex? >> i mean the logical sort of conclusion -- >> opec is the oil cartel in the middle east? >> right. it's the idea that you could have collusion. if a woman next to you is willing to go to bed with a guyb after one drink, and you're saying well, i want commitment,y you're going to lose. >> women should get together? >> right. women could get together and say, look, we decided to raise our prices.we >> a woman h said she was doing

porn to pay for college and you object to people saying this iso empowering. >> i think it's just horrendous. you have this woman, she's a woman studies major, of course. and she goes on-line and shes explains that this is very empowering for her.la >> she makes money doing something that's not that>> difficult. >> they're used. they contract std's. >> some do. >> i'm not going to get into an argument about legalized prostitution. >> it's porn, not prostitution. >> it is prostitution, essentially. they're getting paid to have sex. it just happens to be on camera. the bottom line here is that i think women are suggesting, feminists are suggesting thata somehow this woman is going togs be happy to have a duke degree and having spent her four years being used by men on camera. i just think ultimately that'sig not in her best interest. >> thank you, naomi. next, feminism or not, why are most business and political leaders still men? here is one answer from facebook's coo.

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including jane height mcmurray, the author of "navigating the lipstickviga jungle." but the author of "war on men" says sandberg sends the wrong message. what do you mean? >> most women do not choose to be as ambitious as a sheryl sandberg type person. people who work -- >> most women? >> correct. most women do not wish to do that. most women who have children --n we're not talking about women without children because that's different demographic. but most women with children choose to work part-time, if they work at all, specifically so that they can be there for their families and children and make that sort of the nucleus of their lives and fit work around that. i say, what's wrong with that? >> what's wrong with that? >> well, the truth of the matte> is, in the real world, women have to work. most people have to work.

80% of men die married. 80% of women die single. the bottom line is that at somee point in a woman's life, she is going to have to be responsible for herself economically. what sheryl sandberg is doing in her book is identifying a problem and coming up with some solutions for how women can get what they want, need and deserve. >> sheryl sandberg's larger message is -- which she has gone on the record stating that the world would be better if there were 50% of men at home and 50% of women -- >> what's wrong with that? wrongre are a loft things with that. the number within thing is it completely ignores male and female natures. it imapplies they want thcre sae thing and want and operate with the same set of tools. and they don't. it's the idea that they're supposed to and that that isdon' what proves a quality, a faux notion of a quality that i take

issue with. i don't see why equality has tod be proven by living identical lives. that's basically what herng argument is.nd >> jane? >> well, life is not fair and the women have to work. men have to work as well. so what sheryl sanberg is sayinr and the reason for her success that she says in the book isandb because her husband partnered with her.e i think what she's -- >> a lot of people don't have that. >> a lot of women are single -- >> sheryl sandberg did not represent the average women in america. she's billionaire n. average woman can possibly relate to her world. >> don't sell her short. >> it's not about selling her short.r s >> yes, you are. she had to work to get to where shehe is. >> when men and women are successful, they attribute it to different things. >> if you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, i'm awesome. if you ask -- obviously. why are you even asking?n if you ask women why they did a

good job, what they'll say is someone helped them. they got lucky. they worked really hard. >> why does that matter? >> a lot of time women, we wait to be offered something before accepting it. and when people tell us we've done a good job, instead of jusp saying thank you, i'm glad you noticed, women very often will say, oh, thank you, but i have v to thank my team. women very often will not take full credit and responsibility. >> or ask for a raise. >> or ask for a raise. but what happens when they do that is their bosses, people will promote them to give them another job don't understand all the things that they have achieved the will live has to be taking credit so she will be valued spinet bet that intersection of working in family is where i come in. she skips over the details

she skips over the details there is the vision..th >> young woman came to sandberg. >> a woman came up to her and said i want to know how you do it. how do you juggle work and d family? sheryl asked the woman why? are you married? she said no. are you close to being married? no. i don't even really have aos boyfriend yet. maybe she was in her 20s. and sheryl was disparaging of that and thought that was basically stupid, to be thinking about how to balance work and family before you're even married. i think it's brilliant. ith actually think mapping out your life based on the fact that you know, if you are someone who wants marriage and motherhood to map out your life according to that being at the center valuefe of your life and working everything else in, including your career around that. to some of the smartest women haveo done that so that they ultimately, by the end of their lives, did, quote, unquote v it ology bigeneralsing their lives and understanding that a woman't life has seasons.

theres a time for this and a time for that. >> if more women worked, there will be more stay at home dads. the movie "mr. mom" made fun ofd that. >> why weather does mommy keep the extra diapers? >> cowards. this fits sandberg's vision of running half the home. t i assume we'd be competent.re l but that's really at the heart of this debate.o we do not accept the fact thatha there arte biological differencs between men and women, that thee are good and that we need to foster them and be proud of them and to celebrate -- >> everybody is fearful about putting women back into the

economic prison. >> right. >> i don't think they are. >> it's the fear of going back that is keeping us from moving forward. >> what do you mean by economic prison? >> women had to ask their husband's permission to do things. women didn't make any money. we're out of time. thank you. coming up, this talk about a war on women makes me feel left outn next, a woman says there is a war on boys. ♪ ♪

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to broadband internet at home. it's a place named one america's most veteran friendly employers. next is information and entertainment in ways you never thought possible. welcome to what's next. comcastnbcuniversal. >> we don't want your stupid war. >> we've been talking about what's been called a war on women, but when i visit schools, i don't see a war onhe women. bt i see women getting the best grades, the most advancedthey degrees. i see boys struggling, beinges told sit still. stop disrupting the class. country see i can't says -- christina says there's a war against boys in education and wrote a book about it. a war against boys? >> boys are neglected. they are second class citizens in our classrooms. up in their grades,-cla their college me tribulation rates. >> and the policies that cause this are things like zero

tolerance? >> for example, across the country, hardly a week goes by that you don't hear of some boy suspended in one case, he chewed a pop tart into the shape of a gun. >> was suspended. >> was suspended. or go bang, bang, vanquish bad guys and this is thought to be d precursor of sociopathic behavior. >> in colorado, a 7-year-old was suspended for throwing an imaginary grenade. >> at bad guys. he wanted to vanquish bad guys. this is the absolute typical play of little boys and it's treated as a pathology in need of intervention. >> i have the pathology. i can't sit still and i have n this chair that moves and istil remember just struggling in school. >> and this has again, an impact on little boys. >> the books chosen often byth women are girl books. >> typically do you have female teachers who assign books thatpa they remember enjoying and so

you'll have little boys reading issue, i don't know, "littleg house on the operatory" when they might be more interested in captain underpass. >> you say that "captain underpants" more than charlotte's web, boys like nonfiction, guiness book of world records stuff more than" little women."wome but that's not is what is taught? they don't give the boys a choice? >> well, certainly some teachers do. the british have done careful studies. they're trying o close the reading gap that favors girls and found that on average, boys like nonfiction, or they'll read newspapers or comic books and girls like fiction, they'll read blogs and poetry. the british, at the level of the british parliament, have stucked teachers on who are the best writers for boys, books boys find irresistible. it's unmanual that will that would be done here right now.unm >> years ago before you wrote your book and before you enlightened me, i was a clueless

reporter at abc and i totally fell for the propaganda about girls being victims in co-ed schools. at co-ed schools, the boys getg the better deal. they talk more in class. get called on more in class. who gets the mosts in class? boys or girls? >> boys. >> why boys? >> because they talk more than the girls. the girls don't really get called on too much. >> this girl had a a theory to y boys are quicker to raise theiry hand. >> the boys, like they say what they think and if they're wrong, they don't care. >> that was my daughter, by the way, years ago. what she says is true. the boys do get the attention. how are they victims? >> she's also right when she said if they're wrong, they don't care. girls on average care much more about getting the right answer.o they're more engaged and doing a lot better. at the time you this alleged crisis of the short changed girl, what was really

happening? girls were moving ahead of boys in ways whichal are unprecedent, and the college gap threatens to become a chasm. the literacy gap is already a chasm. >> 57% bachelors degrees. 60% of masters now go to women.r the dean of william and mary admissions is worried about what? >> we're the college of william and mary and mary. >> thank you.le upge next, the truth about the difference between boys and girls. >> bang, bang! >> girls cared more about playing with each other, talking, cooperating. >> do you want to be the princess?

the idea of a war on women seems as silly as the propaganda i was taught in college. my leftist professors explained that the only reason men and women behave differently was because we're raisedmen differently. if society and parents treat boys girls the same, behavior differences will vanish.ls and i believed it. but then i had kids. i tried to eliminate sexism in my daughter's books.imin i changed every he -- and they're all over the place -- to she. the videos i gave her featured female heros. >> i am she-ra! >> there was a female role model. we wouldn't give my son toy guns

or let him watch violent stuff. but it didn't matter. he still played war.so my daughter dressed up.ll i know my one example provesa nothing. i hadn't controlled all the influences. but other parents reported the same thing.ot so i did a tv show about it, talking to scientists and other parents. >> i refuse to give him guns. i would not be the person to ari my child, but he made guns out of carrots and cucumbers. >> you must have d sent them different signals. you encouraged him to be active, her to be nurturing. >> no. we gave them each trucks and she wouldn't play with trucks. a >> the girls, were, well, more civilized. they'd look you in the eye, talk to you. they cared about your feelings. the boys wanted to go to war. >> bang, bang! >> there were exceptions, but boys and girls, men and women, just behave differently. it turns out there iss lots of research showing that. one study was done at the

university of rochester. students are blindfolded and o walked through the maze ofs tunnels that run underneath the campus. experimenter stays behind them and guides them with a tap on the shoulder so they don't runed into anybody. when the women are asked where a college building is -- >> can you tell me where wilsoni common is? >> that way. >> men retained a sense of what direction they had moved. but >> go through the next doors, take a left and a right. thenen a left. >> women, on the other hand v a better memory for detail. check out this test. at york university in toronto, students are asked to wait in a cluttered room while an experimenter gets something ready. actually the students doesn't know it,ed this is the experime. how much of the room will she remember? ther two minutes, experimenter moves her toshe another room and asks her. >> tell me every object in that room that you can remember. >> women typically give answersj

like this. >> on the right-hand side of the desk right here was your initials at the top. there was a button with i am 40. in the middle there was envelopes, duke university envelopes. a comic. >> she went on and on with description, many women did. guys were more likely to say. i don'tys know. there was some stuff. we are different. at abc, this was controversial. a 20/20 correspondent cornered one of my producers in the ladies' room and said that was a horrible show. feminists icon said genderer difference shouldn't be studied. she told me, it's anti-american crazy thinking even to do this kind of research. with the time fire department dropped strength tests to avoid being accused of sextmen discrimination. when someone complained about being dragged downstairs instead

of carried, gloria steinem replied, it's better to drag them out. there is less smoke down there. really, she said that. this mindless egalitarianism is dangerous. but it feels good, so government keeps doing more of it. obamacare forces health insurance companies to chargeacr men and women the exact same price. colleges must have equal sports participation. all pay, everywhere must be gender equal. hooters must hire male waiters. yes, our government actually did sue hooters demanding that asmae part of its war on inequality. but it dropped its suit after hooters ran this commercial mock the government. >> high hi, guys. t >> hi, jamie. >> welcome to hooters. >> good fo r hooters. i know you egalitarians dream of genders being exactly equal, but that's nonsense. men and women are different. and we should celebrate that rather than claiming women are

victims. equ equality means equal opportunity. not equal everything. difference is good. that's our show. see you next week. hi, everybody. i'm jamie colby and it's great to be with you on this hour with arthel neville. it's brand-new hour inside america's news headquarters. >> topping the news, russia ignoring u.s. warnings, moving closer to annexing part of ukraine on the eve of a major vote there. live report with the latest. plus, growing concerns over cyber security as the united states plans to turn remaining control of the internet over to global powers. these watches don't just tell time. they're blast into the future. look at the newestsm